Synonyms for Peculiar

Synonyms for "peculiar" (244 found)

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Closest matches (49)

Adjective(6 words)

curious odd particular characteristic comicalcurious earthlings

aberrant abnormal absurd anomalous another appropriateappropriate toarbitrary atypical bent bizarre categorical character characteristic characterizing classificational classificatory connotative contrastive crank

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Noun(1 words)

alien

Strong matches (73)

Adjective(6 words)

distinctive behaviordistinctive traitdroll eerie funnyodd counts

distinguished distinguishing divergent divisional divisionary dotty eccentric else emblematic erratic evidential exceptional exhibitive exotic expressive extraordinary fanciful fantastic fey figural

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figurative fishy flaky foreignfreaked outfreakish freaky funny gnominious grotesque identifying ideographic idiocratic idiosyncratic implicative improbablein characterindicating indicative indicatory individual individualizing individuating inexplicable inherent intrinsic irregular kinky kooky local maggoty marked meaningful metaphorical namingnative tonatural tonot that sortnot the samenot the typenovel nutty odd

Noun(3 words)

italian ascenderemore oddmost odd

Adverb(1 words)

most distinctive person

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Adjective(36 words)

odd habitodd habitsodd integerodd integersodd numbersodd patternodd propertyodd resultodd street numberodd totalsodderodder weatheroddest oddish queer queerest quirkiest quirky quizzical rum

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rummest rummy singular special specific spooky strangestrange devicestrangest unusualunusual caseunusual personunusual thingweirder weirdest weirdy

Noun(3 words)

odd numberodd one outwack

oddballof a sortof another sortof sortsoffoff the walloffbeat ordinal ordinary otherother thanotherwise outout-of-the-wayoutlandish outre pale particularpassing strangepathognomonic

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Verb(1 words)

quirked

Determiner(1 words)

two distinct persons

Related word relations

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6 relation types

More general

4 entries

adjective descriptor feature property

More specific

9 entries

bizarre custom dialect eccentric mannerism odd quirky strange weird

Collocations

6 entries

peculiar behaviorpeculiar habitpeculiar patternpeculiar smellpeculiar spellingpeculiar tradition

Inflections

2 entries

more peculiarmost peculiar

Derivations

3 entries

peculiarities peculiarity peculiarly

similar

4 entries

characteristic specific strange unusual

Sample sentences

24 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

Every nation has its peculiar character.

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Feathers are peculiar to birds.

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Was Nazism peculiar to Germany?

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For instance, bowing is peculiar to us, the Japanese.

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Peculiar