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Eccentric   /ɪksˈɛntrɪk/  /ˌɛksˈɛntrɪk/   Listen
Eccentric

adjective
1.
Conspicuously or grossly unconventional or unusual.  Synonyms: bizarre, flakey, flaky, freakish, freaky, gonzo, off-the-wall, outlandish, outre.  "Famed for his eccentric spelling" , "A freakish combination of styles" , "His off-the-wall antics" , "The outlandish clothes of teenagers" , "Outre and affected stage antics"
2.
Not having a common center; not concentric.  Synonym: nonconcentric.
noun
1.
A person with an unusual or odd personality.  Synonyms: eccentric person, flake, geek, oddball.
2.
A person of a specified kind (usually with many eccentricities).  Synonyms: case, character, type.  "A strange character" , "A friendly eccentric" , "The capable type" , "A mental case"



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"Eccentric" Quotes from Famous Books



... even before they got him to Anderson's Halfway Inn. There was wild racing back to town for doctors, and some accidents; one horse was killed and another ridden to death. Others went as a forlorn hope in search of Doc. Wild, eccentric Yankee bush "quack," who had once saved one of Denver's little girls from diphtheria; others, again, for Peter M'Laughlan, bush missionary, to ...
— The Rising of the Court • Henry Lawson

... another eccentric character named Tom Lolar, an Indian of the Seneca tribe, whose lands in the long ago of Indian history bordered the blue waters of Lake Seneca in central New York. This peculiar pair proceeded to electrify certain rural communities in their immediate ...
— Sword and Pen - Ventures and Adventures of Willard Glazier • John Algernon Owens

... him lay a heavy caped coat, covered with the dust and the splashings of a long journey, but he himself was attired in clothes that suggested the most fastidious taste, and the most perfect of tailors; he wore with apparent ease the eccentric fashion of the time, the short-waisted coat of many lapels, the double waistcoat and billows of delicate lace. Unlike Droulde he was of great height, with fair hair and a somewhat lazy expression in his good-natured blue eyes, and as he spoke, there was just a soupon of ...
— I Will Repay • Baroness Emmuska Orczy

... will, if I learn anything positive, Thad," he merely said; "and in the meantime we'll keep tabs on Brother Lu's eccentric actions, hoping to catch him off his guard," and later on Thad realized that these ...
— The Chums of Scranton High Out for the Pennant • Donald Ferguson

... a valet, much preoccupied, and chewing the fag-end of certain Cabinet deliberations in the morning; Flaxman's charming sister, Lady Helen Varley, and her husband; his elder brother, Lord Wanless, unmarried, an expert on armour, slightly eccentric, but still, in the eyes of all intriguing mothers, and to his own annoyance, more than desirable as a husband owing to the Wanless collieries and a few other trifles of the same kind; the Bishop of Markborough; Canon France and his sister; a young poet whose very delicate muse had lodged ...
— The Case of Richard Meynell • Mrs. Humphry Ward


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