weird

Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples

strange
strangeShe's a strange girl.
oddI always thought there was something a bit odd about her.
bizarreI had a really bizarre dream last night.
weirdHis films are so weird that I can barely get through them.
funnyThis lemonade tastes funny.
peculiarThe chicken had a peculiar smell.
I stood up too quickly and came over all peculiar.
"She's a very funny woman." "Funny ha-ha or funny peculiar?"“她是个非常滑稽的女人。”“是有趣还是古怪？”
This sauce smells really peculiar.
Helen's really nice but her husband's rather peculiar.
That's a rather peculiar outfit she's wearing!

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Strange, suspicious and unnatural
aberrant
aberrantly
abnormal
abnormally
add
freakishly
freakishness
funnily
funnily enoughidiom
ghostliness
perversely
perversity
perverted
pervy
presence
wack
wackadoodle
wackily
wackiness
wacky

peculiaradjective (BELONGING TO)

C2
belonging to, relating to, or found in only particular people or things: 独特的，特有的
He gets on with things in his own peculiar way/manner/fashion.他处理事情有自己独特的方法／方式。
They noted that special manner of walking that was peculiar to her alone.他们注意到了她特有的那种走路姿势。
This type of building is peculiar to the south of the country.这种建筑物是该国南部所特有的。

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Particular and individual
be the very thingidiom
biomarker
calling card
capita
certain
especially
individual
individualistic
individualistically
individuality
individualized
individually
matter
per capita
personally
pet
private
respectively
separately
severally

peculiar | American Dictionary

peculiar
adjective[ not gradable ]
us/pɪˈkjul·jər/

peculiaradjective[not gradable] (STRANGE)

unusual and strange:
The copy editor will check type size and technical details to see if anything looks peculiar.

peculiaradjective[not gradable] (BELONGING TO)

characteristic especially of a particular person, group, or thing:
Katherine Hepburn’s way of talking was peculiar to her.

Examples of peculiar

peculiar
A past that is revered shewed itself to be unsatisfactory with peculiar force in the final section of the preceding chapter.
At this point a logical leap occurs, and the peculiar sort of inferential force that informs dialectic makes itself felt.
Each carved object must be studied for its own peculiar variants.
From his anthropological perspective, discussing 'whether it is an institution peculiar to this or that people or not, is a waste of time'.
Another and very peculiar sacral garment was the cuirass.
Big bonfires made of pitchy pinewood have a peculiar mystic fascination.
The other bear is part of a life, not a work - but a life that was projected into the works with peculiar magnification and self-consciousness.
The peculiar challenge that the thought presents lies in the question that confronts the person who undergoes its experience.
The lung vasculature was reduced in four, and abnormal in one who had a peculiar reticular pattern.
The adverbial type, (27e), offers a peculiar instantiation of the same process.
However, it is peculiar in that the gif-clause is not contained within the ñt clause but precedes it.
Earlier studies of water demand ignore the peculiar features of the presence of block rates and perform empirical estimation using ex-post calculated average prices.
The simple answer is that in the peculiar circumstances of the 1940s shortage economy, this was the best use of the money.
Another peculiar aspect of the notation of partimento fugues resides in the numerous clef changes, which can even be found after the exposition.
One way to understand the peculiar circumstances of a national research programme is to actually hold consultation visits with the scientists on the programme.
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