Vocabulary
Outrageous
English and Urdu gloss, synonyms and antonyms, and example usage from our editorial sentence cache where available.
English meaning
Shockingly bad or Excessive / Very bad and unusual and rather shocking
Urdu meaning
اشتعال انگیز
Example sentences (from Dawn)
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- NO one denies that outrageous incidents occur within our universities, sometimes making national news.
- `Is it justified to kill five [Al Jazeera corrected the figure to four] journalists when you were only targeting one?` It is outrageous to suggest that targeting one was OK.
- Iran`s foreign minister, Abbas Araghchi, condemned the attack as an outrageous violation of international law, which will have `everlasting consequences.` He said his country `reserved all options to defend its sovereignty and its people`.
- Yet, banks` top executives enjoy outrageous perks.
- It is not just outrageous, it is grotesque.
Synonyms
flamboyant, flashy
Antonyms
magnificent, moral
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