Outrageous vs Wicked - What's the difference?

Outrageous is a related term of wicked.

As adjectives the difference between outrageous and wicked

is that outrageous is cruel, violating morality or decency; provoking indignation or affront while wicked is evil or mischievous by nature or wicked can be having a wick.

As an adverb wicked is

(slang|new england|british) very, extremely.

As a noun wicked is

people who are wickedoxford dictionary [http://wwwoxfordadvancedlearnersdictionarycom/dictionary/wicked_2].

As a verb wicked is

(wick).

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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wicked
English

Etymology 1
1225-75 (etyl) wikked, wikke, an alteration of wicke, adjectival use of (etyl)
Adjective
(en-adj)
Evil or mischievous by nature.

* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=6 citation , passage=‘[…] I remember a lady coming to inspect St. Mary's Home where I was brought up and seeing us all in our lovely Elizabethan uniforms we were so proud of, and bursting into tears all over us because “it was wicked to dress us like charity children”. […]’.}}
(slang) Excellent; awesome; masterful; deeply satisfying.

Usage notes
* Nouns to which "wicked" is often applied: witch, person, man, woman, angel, deed, act, pleasure, delight, game, way, night, word.
Synonyms
* (evil or mischievous) evil, immoral, malevolent, malicious, nefarious, twisted, villainous, See also * awesome, bad, cool, dope, excellent, far out, groovy, hot, rad, See also
Derived terms
* wickedly * wickedness * wicked tongue
Adverb
(-)
(slang, New England, British) Very, extremely.

The band we went to see the other night was wicked loud!

Synonyms
* hella, helluv (primarily Northern California slang )
Noun

People who are wicked.Oxford dictionary [http://www.oxfordadvancedlearnersdictionary.com/dictionary/wicked_2].

Etymology 2
See (wick)
Verb
(head)
(wick)

Adjective
(-)
Having a wick.

a two-wicked lamp

(British, dialect, chiefly, Yorkshire) Infested with maggots.

References
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