WAY-OUT Synonyms: 107 Similar and Opposite Words

way-out

adjective

ˈwā-ˈau̇t

Definition of way-out

as in bizarre

different from the ordinary in a way that causes curiosity or suspicion some new and way-out suggestions for naming the baby

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Recent Examples of way-out But in the 1950s, Detroit was still about blue-skying massive, gas-swigging machines and way-out concept cars. — Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 26 Mar. 2026 Motel Destino is another way-out-there movie. — Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 16 Nov. 2025 Suddenly, after months of sameness, way-out Pluto makes a move, ending its latest retrograde and turning direct! — Jennifer Culp, Them, 4 Oct. 2024

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Adjective

The cookie shops have a rotating menu of cookies with elaborate toppings, sometimes offering bizarre flavors such as everything bagel.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 23 Oct. 2026
Skerritt co-starred opposite Kathy Baker, playing his doctor wife in the community of Rome, Wisconsin, a place with bizarre happenings, like having a robber leaving a trail of frogs or the pope becoming the primary witness to a murder.

— CBS News, CBS News, 22 Oct. 2026

Definition of bizarre

Adjective

After Orson’s reading from the novel, the broadcast cuts in on a weather report that is then followed by a dance music concert, but the smooth tango music is interrupted by breaking news of strange explosions on Mars.

— Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 23 Oct. 2026
However, a strange light phenomenon and the arrival of her physicist ex-husband pull her back into the scientific world.

— Cooper Katz McKim, NPR, 23 Oct. 2026

Definition of strange

Adjective

Divorced from the context of a map, Texas' congressional districts might just look like a collection of funny shapes.

— CBS News, CBS News, 28 Oct. 2026
China did not find anything funny about the French star laughing at a meme of Mao, the communist dictator whose regime resulted in tens of millions of deaths.

— Mark Harris OutKick, FOXNews.com, 28 Oct. 2026

Definition of funny

Adjective

Those visual gags feel like an odd fit for the material; Ishiguro is known more for low-grade existential sadness than slapstick.

— Natasha O'Neill, Vanity Fair, 22 Oct. 2026
McKee has had a bit of an odd season starting from training camp when the Eagles brought in veteran Andy Dalton to challenge for the backup job.

— ABC News, ABC News, 22 Oct. 2026

Definition of odd

Adjective

The prosecution, a rare Department of Justice criminal case against a former employee, revisits a tangled and peculiar saga that roiled the final weeks of the 2020 race.

— Eric Tucker, Los Angeles Times, 23 Oct. 2026
Riley is also of firm belief that Dylan’s peculiar type of vocal delivery, while limited in range, contributed to his Nobel win that other performers fail to possess.

— Devon Ivie, Vulture, 19 Oct. 2026

Definition of peculiar

Adjective

Climate change also brings increasingly erratic storm systems, heat and rainfall patterns that leave standing water, creating conditions ideal for mosquitoes to breed.

— Kylee Rae Noel, The Conversation, 27 Oct. 2026
Baseball is an ensemble game, a wildly erratic sport to predict.

— Brady Brickner-Wood, New Yorker, 26 Oct. 2026

Definition of erratic

Adjective

The multigenerational novel centers on Jacob, a curious child in Scotland whose story connects with generations that come before and after him, including a family in 1955 who gather at Killigarth House for the summer to watch a historic comet.

— Carly Tagen-Dye, PEOPLE, 22 Oct. 2026
One stretch of the vast Western Australia wilderness is imprinted with a curious crater, which likely formed after a meteor impact hundreds of millions of years ago.

— Chelsea Gohd, Space.com, 22 Oct. 2026

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