奇想天外
きそうてんがい
fantastic, bizarre
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Examples
奇想天外な発想だ。
きそうてんがいなはっそうだ。
It is a wildly original idea.
彼は奇想天外なアイデアを次々に出す。
かれはきそうてんがいなアイデアをつぎつぎにだす。
He comes up with one outlandish idea after another.
その映画の結末は奇想天外で、誰も予想できなかった。
そのえいがのけつまつはきそうてんがいで、だれもよそうできなかった。
The ending of that film was so far out that nobody saw it coming.
Common patterns
- 奇想天外な発想
- a wildly original way of thinking
- 奇想天外なアイデア
- an outlandish idea
- 奇想天外な物語
- a fantastical story
Memory tip
Literally an idea (奇想) that came from outside the heavens (天外) — from somewhere nobody thought to look. Unlike 荒唐無稽, which dismisses an idea as nonsense, 奇想天外 usually admires the imagination behind it.
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