also: おおそれた
pre-noun adjectival
outrageous; wild; reckless; audacious
Used pre-nominally to describe ambitions, ideas, plans, claims, or actions that are shockingly bold, excessive, or beyond reasonable bounds. Often carries a negative or critical tone.
He harbors outrageous ambitions.
Such a wild plan cannot possibly succeed.
Standard kanji spelling; the reading だいそれた is the modern norm.
Irregular reading marked as おおそれた; rarely used and may be considered non-standard.
Kana spelling is common in everyday writing, especially when the kanji 大 might be misread as おお.
Derived from the verb 逸れる (それる, 'to deviate') with the prefix 大 (だい, 'big, great'), literally 'greatly deviated'. The form 大それた is the past/perfective attributive form of 大逸れる, used as a pre-noun adjectival.