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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | strange, odd |
| Synonyms: | bizarre, curious, droll, eccentric, erratic, fanciful, fantastic, freakish, freaky, funny, idiosyncratic, laughable, oddball, off the beaten track, offbeat, original, outlandish, peculiar, queer, singular, special, unusual, weird*, whimsical |
| Antonyms: | common, conventional, regular, usual |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | curious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | very odd |
| Synonyms: | bizarre, exotic, extraordinary, marvelous, mysterious, novel, oddball, peculiar, puzzling, quaint, queer, rare, remarkable, singular, strange, unconventional, unexpected, unique, unorthodox, unusual, weird, wonderful |
| Antonyms: | average, normal, ordinary, usual |
| Main Entry: | droll |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | amusing, farcical |
| Synonyms: | absurd, camp, campy, clownish, comic, comical, crack-up, diverting, eccentric, entertaining, for grins, funny, gagged up, gelastic, humorous, jocular, joshing, laffer, laughable, ludicrous, odd, preposterous, quaint, queer, quizzical, ridiculous, riot, risible, waggish, whimsical |
| Antonyms: | dramatic, serious, traumatic, unfunny |
| Main Entry: | eccentric |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | bizarre, unusual |
| Synonyms: | aberrant, abnormal, anomalous, beat*, bent*, bizarre, capricious, characteristic, cockeyed, crazy, curious, droll, erratic, far out, flaky, freak, freakish, funky*, funny, idiosyncratic, irregular, kooky, nutty, odd, oddball, off the wall, off-center, offbeat, out in left field, outlandish, peculiar, quaint, queer, quirky, quizzical, singular, strange, uncommon, unconventional, unnatural, way out, weird, whimsical, wild |
| Antonyms: | boring, common, dull, normal, ordinary, plain, regular, standard, unexciting, usual |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | fantastic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | strange, different; imaginary |
| Synonyms: | absurd, artificial, capricious, chimerical, comical, crazy, eccentric, erratic, exotic, extravagant, extreme, fanciful, far-fetched, fictional, foolish, foreign, freakish, grotesque, hallucinatory, illusive, imaginative, implausible, incredible, insane, irrational, ludicrous, mad, misleading, nonsensical, odd, out of sight, outlandish, peculiar, phantasmagorical, preposterous, quaint, queer, ridiculous, singular, suppositious, unbelievable, unlikely, unreal, wacky*, weird, whimsical |
| Antonyms: | common, commonplace, conventional, customary, familiar, ordinary, plain, usual |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | odd/oddball |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | unusual, abnormal |
| Synonyms: | atypical, avant-garde, bizarre, character, crazy, curious, deviant, different, eccentric, erratic, exceptional, extraordinary, fantastic, flaky*, freak*, freakish, freaky, funny, idiosyncratic, irregular, kinky*, kooky, off-the-wall, offbeat, out of the ordinary, outlandish, peculiar, quaint, queer, rare, remarkable, singular, spacey, strange, uncanny, uncommon, unconventional, unique, way out, weird, weirdo*, whimsical |
| Antonyms: | common, conventional, habitual, normal, ordinary, regular, standard, usual |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | outlandish |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | bizarre, strange |
| Synonyms: | alien, awkward, barbaric, barbarous, boorish, clumsy, curious, droll, eccentric, erratic, exotic, extravagant, fantastic, far-out, foreign, freakish, gauche, graceless, grotesque, kinky*, odd, outrageous, outré, peculiar, preposterous, quaint, queer, ridiculous, rude, singular, tasteless, ultra, unconventional, uncouth, unheard-of, unorthodox, unusual, weird, whimsical, wild |
| Antonyms: | common, familiar, normal, ordinary, usual |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | peculiar |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | bizarre, odd |
| Synonyms: | abnormal, bent*, creepy*, curious, eccentric, exceptional, extraordinary, flaky*, freakish, freaky, funny, idiosyncratic, kinky*, kooky, oddball, off-the-wall, offbeat, outlandish, quaint, queer, singular, strange, uncommon, unconventional, uncustomary, unusual, wacky*, way-out, weird, wonderful |
| Antonyms: | normal, ordinary, regular, standard, usual |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | picturesque |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | attractive, referring to scenery |
| Synonyms: | arresting, artistic, beautiful, charming, colorful, graphic, photographic, pictorial, pleasant, pretty, quaint, scenic, striking, vivid |
| Antonyms: | hideous, ugly, unsightly |
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