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Words people most associate with “peculiar”:
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Adjective (4 meanings)
1. beyond or deviating from the usual or expected.
Examples:
- “a curious hybrid accent”,
- “her speech has a funny twang”,
- “they have some funny ideas about war”,
- “had an odd name”,
- “the peculiar aromatic odor of cloves”,
- “something definitely queer about this town”,
- “what a rum fellow”,
- “singular behavior”
Derivationally related form:
- curio, curiosity, oddity, oddment, peculiarity, rarity (noun) - something unusual -- perhaps worthy of collecting
- foreignness, strangeness, curiousness (noun) - the quality of being alien or not native
- oddity, queerness, quirk, quirkiness, crotchet (noun) - a strange attitude or habit
- singularity (noun) - strangeness by virtue of being remarkable or unusual
peculiar is similar to:
2. unique or specific to a person or thing or category.
Examples:
- “the particular demands of the job”,
- “has a particular preference for Chinese art”,
- “a peculiar bond of sympathy between them”,
- “an expression peculiar to Canadians”,
- “rights peculiar to the rich”,
- “the special features of a computer”,
- “my own special chair”
Derivationally related form:
- particularity, specialness (noun) - the quality of being particular and pertaining to a specific case or instance
- peculiarity, specialness, specialty, speciality, distinctiveness (noun) - a distinguishing trait
peculiar is similar to:
- specific (adjective) - (sometimes followed by `to') applying to or characterized by or distinguishing something particular or special or unique
3. markedly different from the usual; "a peculiar hobby of stuffing and mounting bats"; "a man...feels it a peculiar insult to be taunted with cowardice by a woman"-Virginia Woolf.
peculiar is similar to:
- unusual (adjective) - not usual or common or ordinary
4. characteristic of one only; distinctive or special; "the peculiar character of the Government of the U.S."- R.B.Taney.
Derivationally related form:
- peculiarity, specialness, specialty, speciality, distinctiveness (noun) - a distinguishing trait
peculiar is similar to:
- characteristic (adjective) - typical or distinctive