Every nation has its peculiar character.
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Peculiar
//pɪˈkjul.jɚ//
Synonyms for "peculiar" (212 found)
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Strong matches (63)
deviativediacriticaldiagnosticdifferencingdifferentdifferentialdifferentiativediscriminatingdiscriminativedistinctdistinctivedistinguisheddistinguishingdivergentdivisionaldivisionarydottyeccentricelseemblematic
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erraticevidentialexceptionalexhibitiveexoticexpressiveextraordinaryfancifulfantasticfeyfiguralfigurativefishyflakyforeignfreaked outfreakishfreakygnominiousgrotesqueidentifyingideographicidiocraticidiosyncraticimplicativeimprobablein characterindicatingindicativeindicatoryindividualindividualizingindividuatinginexplicableinherentintrinsicirregularkinkykookylocal
Adjective(1 words)
Related words (106)
maggotymarkedmeaningfulmetaphoricalnamingnative tonatural tonot that sortnot the samenot the typenovelnuttyoddballof a sortof another sortof sortsoffoff the walloffbeatordinal
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ordinaryotherother thanotherwiseoutout-of-the-wayoutlandishoutrepalepassing strangepathognomonicpersonalpersonalizingprivateproperquaintqueerquintessentialquirkyrareremarkablerepresentativerumscrewballscrewysemanticsemioticseparateseparativesicksignalsignalizingsignificantsignificativesignifyingsinglesingularsortspecialstrangesubdivisionalsuggestivesui generissymbolicsymbolicalsymbolisticsymbologicalsymptomaticsymptomatologictaxonomictrue to formtwistedtypaltypicalunaccountableunaccustomeduncommonunconventionaluncustomaryunearthlyunfamiliaruniqueunnaturalunorthodoxunwontedvariouswackyweirdwhimsicalwondrous strange
Adjective(9 words)
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1 entriesSynonyms
4 entriesRelated terms
1 entriesderived
15 entrieshas context
2 entriesrelated to
15 entriessimilar
6 entriesTranslations
101 translations across 36 languages.
Armenian
1 entries- արտասովոր adj (out of the ordinary)
Bashkir
1 entries- хас adj (common or usual for a particular place or circumstance)
Belarusian
1 entries- асаблі́вы adj (out of the ordinary)
Bulgarian
2 entries- необикновен adj (out of the ordinary)
- особен adj (out of the ordinary)
Catalan
2 entries- peculiar adj (out of the ordinary)
- peculiar adj (common or usual for a particular place or circumstance)
Czech
4 entries- charakteristický adj (common or usual for a particular place or circumstance)
- divný adj (out of the ordinary)
- extravagantní adj (out of the ordinary)
- neobvyklý adj (out of the ordinary)
Dutch
4 entries- karakteristiek adj (common or usual for a particular place or circumstance)
- merkwaardig adj (out of the ordinary)
- ongebruikelijk adj (out of the ordinary)
- ongewoon adj (out of the ordinary)
Esperanto
2 entries- eksterordinara adj (out of the ordinary)
- stranga adj (out of the ordinary)
Estonian
4 entries- iseäralik adj (common or usual for a particular place or circumstance)
- kummaline adj (out of the ordinary)
- omapärane adj (common or usual for a particular place or circumstance)
- tavatu adj (out of the ordinary)
Finnish
4 entries- erikoinen adj (out of the ordinary)
- kummallinen adj (out of the ordinary)
- merkillinen adj (out of the ordinary)
- outo adj (out of the ordinary)
French
4 entries- bizarre adj (out of the ordinary)
- curieux adj (out of the ordinary)
- extraordinaire adj (out of the ordinary)
- particulier adj (out of the ordinary)
Galician
2 entries- estraño adj (out of the ordinary)
- peculiar adj (out of the ordinary)
German
2 entries- merkwürdig adj (out of the ordinary)
- seltsam adj (out of the ordinary)
Hindi
2 entries- अजीब adj (out of the ordinary)
- अजीबो-गरीब adj (out of the ordinary)
Hungarian
2 entries- sajátos adj (out of the ordinary)
- sajátságos adj (out of the ordinary)
Indonesian
1 entries- garib adj (out of the ordinary)
Irish
1 entries- saoithiúil adj (out of the ordinary)
Italian
4 entries- particolare adj (out of the ordinary)
- peculiare adj (out of the ordinary)
- peculiare adj (common or usual for a particular place or circumstance)
- strano adj (out of the ordinary)
Japanese
3 entries- 奇異な adj (out of the ordinary)
- 特有な adj (common or usual for a particular place or circumstance)
- 風変わりな adj (out of the ordinary)
Kazakh
1 entries- біртүрлі adj (out of the ordinary)
Korean
1 entries- 기묘한 adj (out of the ordinary)
Latvian
2 entries- dīvains adj (out of the ordinary)
- savāds adj (out of the ordinary)
Lithuanian
1 entries- saviškas adj (common or usual for a particular place or circumstance)
Lombard
2 entries- particolar adj (out of the ordinary)
- strani adj (out of the ordinary)
Macedonian
4 entries- карактеристичен adj (common or usual for a particular place or circumstance)
- необичен adj (out of the ordinary)
- својствен adj (common or usual for a particular place or circumstance)
- чуден adj (out of the ordinary)
Māori
2 entries- korokē adj (out of the ordinary)
- whanokē adj (out of the ordinary)
Norwegian Bokmål
4 entries- karakteristisk adj (common or usual for a particular place or circumstance)
- merkverdig adj (out of the ordinary)
- selsom adj (out of the ordinary)
- spesiell adj (out of the ordinary)
Occitan
1 entries- estranh adj (out of the ordinary)
Plautdietsch
3 entries- besonda adj (out of the ordinary)
- schnoopich adj (out of the ordinary)
- sondaboa adj (out of the ordinary)
Polish
2 entries- osobliwy adj (out of the ordinary)
- specyficzny adj (out of the ordinary)
Portuguese
4 entries- esquisito adj (out of the ordinary)
- estranho adj (out of the ordinary)
- particular adj (common or usual for a particular place or circumstance)
- peculiar adj (out of the ordinary)
Russian
4 entries- необы́чный adj (out of the ordinary)
- осо́бенный adj (out of the ordinary)
- сво́йственный adj (common or usual for a particular place or circumstance)
- своеобра́зный adj (out of the ordinary)
Spanish
4 entries- específico adj (common or usual for a particular place or circumstance)
- peculiar adj (out of the ordinary)
- peculiar adj (common or usual for a particular place or circumstance)
- raro adj (out of the ordinary)
Swedish
2 entries- säregen adj (out of the ordinary)
- utmärkande adj (out of the ordinary)
Turkish
2 entries- olağandışı adj (out of the ordinary)
- tuhaf adj (out of the ordinary)
Unami
1 entries- wëlelëmi adj (out of the ordinary)
Sample sentences
24 total sentences available.
Feathers are peculiar to birds.
Source: tatoeba (27009)
Was Nazism peculiar to Germany?
Source: tatoeba (36321)
For instance, bowing is peculiar to us, the Japanese.
Source: tatoeba (40772)
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