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| Main Entry: |
quirk
 [kwurk] 
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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | oddity of personality, way of doing something |
| Synonyms: | aberration, caprice, characteristic, conceit, crotchet, eccentricity, equivocation, fancy, fetish, foible, habit, humor, idiosyncrasy, idée fixe, irregularity, kink, knack, mannerism, peculiarity, quibble, singularity, subterfuge, trait, turn, twist, vagary, whim, whimsy |
| Main Entry: | attribute |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | feature |
| Synonyms: | aspect, character, characteristic, facet, idiosyncrasy, indication, mark, note, particularity, peculiarity, point, property, quality, quirk, sign, speciality, symbol, trait, virtue |
| Main Entry: | caprice |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | sudden change of behavior |
| Synonyms: | bee, caper*, changeableness, contrariety, crotchet, fad, fancy, fickleness, fitfulness, fool notion, freak, gag, humor, impulse, inconsistency, inconstancy, jerk, kink, mood, notion, peculiarity, perversity, put on*, quirk, rib, temper, thought, vagary, vein, whim, whimsy |
| Antonyms: | constancy, constant, dependability, steadfastness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Example Sentences
- The survival of our village, and many others, is due to a quirk in history and to geography.
- They make a date for later in the evening, but fail to meet due to a quirk of fate.
- It is a quirk of timing that he should face the scrutiny of a judiciary that so studiously ignored his predecessors.
| Main Entry: | curl |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | loop, ringlet, curve |
| Synonyms: | coil, crimp, crispation, curlicue, flourish, frizz, kink, quirk, spiral, swirl, twist, wave, whorl |
| Antonyms: | line |
| Main Entry: | curve |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | arched, rounded line or object |
| Synonyms: | ambit, arc, arch, bend, bight, bow, camber, catenary, chord, circle, circuit, circumference, compass, concavity, contour, crook, curlicue, curvation, curvature, ellipse, festoon, flexure, hairpin, half-moon, helix, horseshoe, hyperbola, incurvation, incurvature, loop, meniscus, ogee, parabola, quirk, rondure, round, sinuosity, sweep, swerve, trajectory, turn, vault, whorl |
| Antonyms: | line |
| Main Entry: | eccentricity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | bizarreness, unusualness |
| Synonyms: | aberration, abnormality, anomaly, caprice, capriciousness, foible, freakishness, hereticism, idiocrasy, idiosyncrasy, irregularity, kink, nonconformity, oddity, oddness, outlandishness, peculiarity, queerness, quirk, singularity, strangeness, unconventionality, unorthodoxness, waywardness, weirdness, whimsicality, whimsicalness |
| Antonyms: | commonality, dullness, normality, regularness, standard, uniformity, usual, usualness |
| Main Entry: | epigram |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | witticism |
| Synonyms: | aphorism, bon mot, joke, motto, pithy saying, quip, quirk |
| Notes: | an epigram is a short statement that makes an interesting, frequently profound, observation about life or the world; an epigraph is a statement culled from the writings or sayings of someone else and used as the heading |
| Main Entry: | exception |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | special case; irregularity |
| Synonyms: | allowance, anomalism, anomaly, departure, deviation, difference, dispensation, eccentricity, exemption, freak, inconsistency, nonconformity, oddity, peculiarity, perquisitor, privilege, privileged person, quirk |
| Antonyms: | normality, regularity, usualness |
| Main Entry: | fad |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | craze |
| Synonyms: | affectation, amusement, caprice, chic, conceit, cry, custom, dernier cri, eccentricity, fancy, fantasy, fashion, fool notion, frivolity, furor, hobby, humor, in, in thing, innovation, kick, kink, latest word, mania, mode, new look, newest wrinkle, passing fancy, passion, quirk, rage, sport, style, thing, trend, vagary, vogue, whim, whimsy, wrinkle |
| Antonyms: | standard, tradition |
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