eccentric

Definition for eccentric

adjective as in bizarre, unusual

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bizarre, curious, erratic, funny, idiosyncratic, kooky, nutty, odd, offbeat, outlandish, peculiar, quirky, strange, unconventional, weird, whimsical

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aberrant, bent, characteristic, crazy, freaky, irregular, oddball, singular, wild

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abnormal, anomalous, capricious, cockeyed, droll, far-out, flaky, freakish, funky, off the wall, off-center, out in left field, quaint, quizzical, uncommon, unnatural, way-out

noun as in person who is bizarre, unusual

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freak, hippie, loner, maverick, oddball, oddity

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beatnik, character, kook, nonconformist, nut, original, weirdo

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odd person, queer duck, rare bird, three-dollar bill

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Through the somber perspective of time, he’s better able to appreciate those eccentric customs of his grandmother that he found weird when he was a first-generation American kid just trying to fit in.

From Los Angeles Times

That series revolved around an aspiring comedian’s increasingly sinister encounters with an eccentric woman.

From Los Angeles Times

Bean’s play, set in the eccentric seaside town of Brighton, is quintessentially English by contrast.

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“My mother and grandmother were more classic than I am. I’ve always been an eccentric person.”

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It is the story of Mary Roy, her formidable, mercurial mother: feminist icon, educator, crusader, eccentric, bully, inspiration.

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