(ˈ)au̇t.|rājəs adjective
Etymology: Middle English, from Middle French outrageus, from outrage + -eus -ous
1.
a. : exceeding the limits of what is normal or tolerable
the outrageous weather we have been afflicted with — New Yorker
b. : not conventional or matter-of-fact : extravagant , fantastic
the text matches the illustrations in this outrageous tale — Margaret F. Kieran
the old outrageous gaiety and dash — Time
an outrageous scheme
2. : violent or unrestrained in action or emotion
know well … how formidable a creature you are when you become once outrageous — William Cowper
3.
a. : involving or doing violent injury or great harm
an outrageous policy of reprisals
an outrageous murder
b. : extremely offensive : showing a disregard for decency or good taste
outrageous discourtesy
outrageous language
Synonyms:
monstrous , heinous , atrocious : outrageous describes whatever is so flagrantly bad that one's sense of decency or one's power to suffer or tolerate is violated
outrageous treatment of prisoners
the general conviction that patent and outrageous crime would bring divine vengeance — H.O.Taylor
outrageous as it was to open a leaden coffin, to see if a woman dead nearly a week were really dead — Bram Stoker
monstrous applies to what is abnormally or fantastically absurd, wrong, or horrible
remarks of such a monstrous nature that Mr. Powell had no option but to accept them for gruesome jesting — Joseph Conrad
the very horror with which men spoke … quite plainly indicates that such a wholesale massacre was exceptional, monstrous — A.T.Quiller-Couch
their faces, which were more horrible to human sight than if they had been creatures of a monstrous nightmare — J.C.Powys
heinous describes that which excites extremest hatred, loathing, and horror
a murder, and a particularly heinous murder, for it involves the violation of hospitality and of gratitude — R.P.Warren
atrocious may apply to fierce or barbarous merciless cruelty, violence, or contempt of sanctioned values
an atrocious murder of a child
atrocious treatment of displaced persons
atrocious acts which can only take place in a slave country — C.R.Darwin
These words are frequently interchangeable and all lend themselves to hyperbolic descriptions of anything deprecated at the moment
outrageous service
a monstrous imposition
a heinous blunder
atrocious weather