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eccentric
noun
1 eccentric
A person with an unusual or odd personality.
synonyms: eccentric person, flake, geek, oddball.
Dutch: excentrieke, lafaard, rare, eigenaardige, exentriekeling, buitenbeentje, creatuur, geitebreier, geitenbreier, knakker, koekebakker, koekenbakker, krotenkoker, nummer, portret, prentenboek, schepsel, snuiter, weirdo, zonderling ... show more
Polish: cudak, dziwadło, dziwak, wybryk natury
2 eccentric
A person of a specified kind (usually with many eccentricities):
— A friendly eccentric.
synonyms: case, character, type.
Dutch: buitenbeentje, geitebreier, geitenbreier, knakker, koekebakker, koekenbakker, krotenkoker, portret, snuiter, type, weirdo, zonderling ... show more
Polish: figura, osobnik, typ, typek
adjective
1 eccentric
Conspicuously or grossly unconventional or unusual:
— Famed for his eccentric spelling.
synonyms: bizarre, flakey, flaky, freakish, freaky, gonzo, off-the-wall, outlandish, outre.
Roget 503:
insane,
mad,
lunatic,
loony [Coll.];
crazy,
crazed,
aliene†,
non compos mentis;
not right,
cracked,
touched;
bereft of reason;
all possessed,
unhinged,
unsettled in one's mind;
insensate,
reasonless,
beside oneself,
demented,
daft;
phrenzied†,
frenzied,
frenetic;
possessed,
possessed with a devil;
deranged,
maddened,
moonstruck;
shatterpated†;
mad-brained,
scatter brained,
shatter brained,
crackbrained;
touched,
tetched [Coll.];
off one's head.
[behavior suggesting insanity]
maniacal;
delirious,
lightheaded,
incoherent,
rambling,
doting,
wandering;
frantic,
raving,
stark staring mad,
stark raving mad,
wild-eyed,
berserk;
delusional,
hallucinatory.
[behavior somewhat resembling insanity]
corybantic†,
dithyrambic;
rabid,
giddy,
vertiginous,
wild;
haggard,
mazed;
flighty;
distracted,
distraught;
depressed;
agitated,
hyped up;
bewildered
etc.
(uncertain)
475.
mad as a March hare,
mad as a hatter;
of unsound mind
etc.
n.;
touched in one's head,
wrong in one's head,
not right in one's head,
not in one's right mind,
not right in one's wits,
upper story;
out of one's mind,
out of one's wits,
out of one's skull [Coll.],
far gone,
out of one's senses,
out of one's wits;
not in one's right mind.
fanatical,
infatuated,
odd,
eccentric;
hypped†,
hyppish†;
spaced out [Coll.].
imbecile,
silly,
etc.
499.
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Roget 853:
ridiculous,
ludicrous;
comical;
droll,
funny,
laughable,
pour rire,
grotesque,
farcical,
odd;
whimsical,
whimsical as a dancing bear;
fanciful,
fantastic,
queer,
rum,
quizzical,
quaint,
bizarre;
screaming;
eccentric
etc.
(unconformable)
83;
strange,
outlandish,
out of the way,
baroque,
weird;
awkward
etc.
(ugly)
846.
extravagant,
outre,
monstrous,
preposterous,
bombastic,
inflated,
stilted,
burlesque,
mock heroic.
drollish;
seriocomic,
tragicomic;
gimcrack,
contemptible
etc.
(unimportant)
643;
doggerel;
ironical
etc.
(derisive)
856;
risible.
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Roget 499:
unintelligent
[Applied to persons],
unintellectual,
unreasoning;
mindless,
witless,
reasoningless†,
brainless;
halfbaked;
having no head
etc.
498;
not bright
etc.
498;
inapprehensible†.
weak headed,
addle headed,
puzzle headed,
blunder headed,
muddle headed,
muddy headed,
pig headed,
beetle headed,
buffle headed†,
chuckle headed,
mutton headed,
maggoty headed,
grossheaded†;
beef headed,
fat witted,
fat-headed.
weak-minded,
feeble-minded;
dull minded,
shallow minded,
lack-brained;
rattle-brained,
rattle headed;
half witted,
lean witted,
short witted,
dull witted,
blunt-witted,
shallow-pated†,
clod-pated†,
addle-pated†,
addle-brained†;
dim-sighted,
short-sighted;
thick-skulled;
weak in the upper story.
shallow,
borne,
weak,
wanting,
soft,
sappy,
spoony;
dull,
dull as a beetle;
stupid,
heavy,
insulse†,
obtuse,
blunt,
stolid,
doltish;
asinine;
inapt
etc.
699;
prosaic
etc.
843;
hebetudinous†.
childish,
child-like;
infantine†,
infantile,
babyish,
babish†;
puerile,
anile;
simple
etc.
(credulous)
486;
old-womanish.
fatuous,
idiotic,
imbecile,
driveling;
blatant,
babbling;
vacant;
sottish;
bewildered
etc.
475.
blockish†,
unteachable Boeotian,
Boeotic;
bovine;
ungifted,
undiscerning†,
unenlightened,
unwise,
unphilosophical†;
apish;
simious†.
foolish,
silly,
senseless,
irrational,
insensate,
nonsensical,
inept;
maudlin.
narrow-minded
etc.
481;
bigoted
etc.
(obstinate)
606;
giddy
etc.
(thoughtless)
458;
rash
etc.
863;
eccentric
etc.
(crazed)
503.
[Applied to actions]
foolish,
unwise,
injudicious,
improper,
unreasonable,
without reason,
ridiculous,
absurd,
idiotic,
silly,
stupid,
asinine;
ill-imagined,
ill-advised,
ill-judged,
ill-devised;
mal entendu [Fr.];
inconsistent,
irrational,
unphilosophical†;
extravagant
etc.
(nonsensical)
497;
sleeveless,
idle;
pointless,
useless
etc.
645;
inexpedient
etc.
647;
frivolous
etc.
(trivial)
643.
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Roget 220:
exterior,
external;
outer most;
outward,
outlying,
outside,
outdoor;
round about
etc.
227;
extramural;
extralimitary†,
extramundane.
superficial,
skin-deep;
frontal,
discoid.
extraregarding†;
excentric†,
eccentric;
outstanding;
extrinsic
etc.
6;
ecdemic [Med.],
exomorphic†.
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Roget 83:
uncomformable,
exceptional;
abnormal,
abnormous†;
anomalous,
anomalistic;
out of order,
out of place,
out of keeping,
out of tune,
out of one's element;
irregular,
arbitrary;
teratogenic;
lawless,
informal,
aberrant,
stray,
wandering,
wanton;
peculiar,
exclusive,
unnatural,
eccentric,
egregious;
out of the beaten track,
off the beaten track,
out of the common,
out of the common run;
beyond the pale of,
out of the pale of;
misplaced;
funny.
unusual,
unaccustomed,
uncustomary,
unwonted,
uncommon;
rare,
curious,
odd,
extraordinary,
out of the ordinary;
strange,
monstrous;
wonderful
etc.
870;
unexpected,
unaccountable;
outre [Fr.],
out of the way,
remarkable,
noteworthy;
queer,
quaint,
nondescript,
none such,
sui generis [Lat.];
unfashionable;
fantastic,
grotesque,
bizarre;
outlandish,
exotic,
tombe des nues [Fr.],
preternatural;
denaturalized†.
heterogeneous,
heteroclite [Gramm.],
amorphous,
mongrel,
amphibious,
epicene,
half blood,
hybrid;
androgynous,
androgynal†;
asymmetric
etc.
243;
adelomorphous†,
bisexual,
hermaphrodite,
monoclinous†.
qualified
etc.
469.
singular,
unique,
one-of-a-kind.
newfangled,
novel,
non-classical;
original,
unconventional,
unheard of,
unfamiliar;
undescribed,
unprecedented,
unparalleled,
unexampled.
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Roget 608:
capricious;
erratic,
eccentric,
fitful,
hysterical;
full of whims
etc.
n.;
maggoty;
inconsistent,
fanciful,
fantastic,
whimsical,
crotchety,
kinky [U.S.],
particular,
humorsome†,
freakish,
skittish,
wanton,
wayward;
contrary;
captious;
arbitrary;
unconformable
etc.
83;
penny wise and pound foolish;
fickle
etc.
(irresolute)
605;
frivolous,
sleeveless,
giddy,
volatile.
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Polish: oryginalny
2 eccentric
Not having a common center; not concentric:
— Eccentric circles.
synonym: nonconcentric.
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