outlandish
owt-LAN-dishadjMeaning strikingly odd, almost unbelievable
Memory hook OUT-LANDISH: from OUT of this LAND. Rex strolls into the picnic in a rainbow cape, goggles and a big helmet, an outfit from some faraway land. It is outlandish.
As usual, Rex arrived at the picnic in an outlandish outfit: a rainbow cape and swim fins.
In context The excuse was so outlandish that no one believed it: Max claimed a seagull had flown off with his homework and dropped it in the lake.
Similar weird, far-fetched, wild, odd
Opposite ordinary, sensible, conventional
From Old English utlendisc, “foreign”: out + land. It once meant simply “from another country.”