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Outrageous vs Lollapalooza - What's the difference?

outrageous | lollapalooza |

As an adjective outrageous

is cruel, violating morality or decency; provoking indignation or affront.

As a noun lollapalooza is

(informal) an outstanding, extreme, or outrageous example of its kind.

outrageous

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Cruel, violating morality or decency; provoking indignation or affront.
  • * c. 1601 , (William Shakespeare), (Hamlet) , First Folio 1623:
    • To be, or not to be, that is the Question: / Whether 'tis Nobler in the minde to suffer / The Slings and Arrowes of outragious Fortune, / Or to take Armes against a Sea of troubles, / And by opposing end them [...].
  • * 2011 , Paul Wilson, (The Guardian) , 19 Oct 2011:
    • The Irish-French rugby union whistler Alain Rolland was roundly condemned for his outrageous decision that lifting a player into the air then turning him over so he falls on his head or neck amounted to dangerous play.
  • * 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), (The Faerie Queene) , III.4:
    • For els my feeble vessell, crazd and crackt / Through thy strong buffets and outrageous blowes, / Cannot endure, but needes it must be wrackt [...].
  • Transgressing reasonable limits; extravagant, immoderate.
  • * 2004 , David Smith, , 19 Dec 2004:
    • Audience members praised McKellen, best known for Shakespearean roles and as Gandalf in The Lord of the Rings, for his show-stealing turn as Twankey in a series of outrageous glitzy dresses.
  • Shocking; exceeding conventional behaviour; provocative.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1935, author= George Goodchild
    • , title=Death on the Centre Court, chapter=1 , passage=She mixed furniture with the same fatal profligacy as she mixed drinks, and this outrageous contact between things which were intended by Nature to be kept poles apart gave her an inexpressible thrill.}}
  • * 2001 , Imogen Tilden, (The Guardian) , 8 Dec 2001:
  • *:"It's something I really am quite nervous about," he admits, before adding, with relish: "You have to be a bit outrageous and challenging sometimes."

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    lollapalooza

    English

    Alternative forms

    * lallapalooza, lalapalooza, lallapaloosa, lolapalooza, lolapaloosa

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (informal) An outstanding, extreme, or outrageous example of its kind.
  • * 1991 Nov. 3, , " Keillor's elegy to randy radio]" (Book Review of WLT A Radio Romance'' by [[w:Garrison Keillor, Garrison Keillor]), ''Chicago Sun-Times (retrieved 23 July 2011):
    • Here is a novel of low comedy and high raillery. It's a lollapalooza that turns out to be a comic elegy for old-time radio.
  • * 1998 Feb. 22, , " Bottom of the Barrel" (Book Review of Star-Spangled Men: America's Ten Worst Presidents'' by Nathan Miller), ''New York Times (retrieved 23 July 2011):
    • Promising to destroy the Soviet Union would have been a lollapalooza even for Reagan, since part of his election strategy was to fight his image as a warmonger.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2009, date=February 17, author=, title=Harper's political payoff is the photo-op, work=Toronto Star citation
    • , passage=Far from the grand events that were once considered – speaking to Parliament or a more modest version of the lollapalooza that brought millions into Chicago streets – this six-hour hi-how-are-you redefines low key.}}