Peculiar

Adjective

 * 1) Out of the ordinary; odd; curious; unusual.
 * It's rather peculiar to see a Kangaroo outside of a zoo in America.
 * 1) * 1800, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Deseret Weekly, Volume 41, page 379,
 * I saw nothing peculiar in his conduct, and thought that his arrangement of the ballot box was perfect.
 * 1) * 2001, Jack Schaefer, Wendell Minor, Shane,
 * "Wasn't it peculiar," I heard mother say, "How he wouldn't talk about himself?"
 * "Peculiar?" said father. "Well, yes, in a way."
 * "Everything about him is peculiar." Mother sounded as if she was stirred up and interested. "I never saw a man quite like him before."
 * 1) * 2008, Stephen Arnott, Peculiar Proverbs: Weird Words of Wisdom from Around the World.
 * 2) Common or usual for a certain place or circumstance; specific or particular.
 * Kangaroos are peculiar to Australia.
 * 1) * 1855, Immanuel Kant, John Miller Dow Meiklejohn (translator), Critique of Pure Reason, Volume 1, Division 2, per 1781, Immanuel Kant, Critik der reinen Vernunft'',
 * This philosopher found his ideas especially in all that is practical,[29] that is, which rests upon freedom, which in its turn ranks under cognitions that are the peculiar product of reason.
 * 1) * 1895, Alfred Russel Wallace, Island Life, XX: Anomalous Islands: Celebes,
 * But of late years extensive Tertiary deposits of Miocene age have been discovered, showing that it is not a mere congeries of volcanoes; it is connected with the British Islands and with Greenland by seas less than 500 fathoms deep; and it possesses a few mammalia, one of which is peculiar, and at least three peculiar species of birds.
 * Note: The author is here referring to Iceland.
 * Note: The author is here referring to Iceland.

Synonyms

 * strange
 * uncommon
 * unusual
 * specific
 * specific
 * specific

Derived terms

 * peculiarity
 * peculiarly
 * peculiarness

Antonyms

 * common
 * usual
 * common
 * general
 * universal
 * general
 * universal

Adverbs for Peculiar
racially;  highly;   distinctly;   definitely; quaintly; strikingly; remarkably; curiously; oddly; highly; outlandishly; exotically; unaccountably.

Thesaurus
aberrant, abnormal, absurd, anomalous, another, appropriate, appropriate to, arbitrary, atypical, bizarre, categorical, characteristic, characterizing, classificational, classificatory, connotative, contrastive, crank, crankish, cranky, crotchety, curious, defining, demonstrative, denominative, denotative, designative, deviant, deviate, deviative, diacritical, diagnostic, differencing, different, differential, differentiative, discriminating, discriminative, distinct, distinctive, distinguished, distinguishing, divergent, divisional, divisionary, dotty, eccentric, else, emblematic, erratic, evidential, exceptional, exhibitive, expressive, extraordinary, fey, figural, figurative, flaky, freaked out, freakish, freaky, funny, identifying, ideographic, idiocratic, idiosyncratic, implicative, in character, indicating, indicative, indicatory, individual, individualizing, individuating, intrinsic, irregular, kinky, kooky, maggoty, marked, meaningful, metaphorical, naming, native to, natural to, not that sort, not the same, not the type, nutty, odd, oddball, of a sort, of another sort, of sorts, off, off the wall, offbeat, ordinal, other, other than, otherwise, out, out-of-the-way, outlandish, particular, passing strange, pathognomonic, personal, personalizing, private, proper, quaint, queer, quintessential, quirky, rare, representative, rum, screwball, screwy, semantic, semiotic, separative, signalizing, significant, significative, signifying, single, singular, sort, special, specific, strange, subdivisional, suggestive, sui generis, symbolic, symbolistic, symbological, symptomatic, symptomatologic, taxonomic, true to form, twisted, typal, typical, uncommon, unconventional, uncustomary, unearthly, unique, unnatural, unorthodox, unusual, wacky, weird, whimsical, wondrous strange

Etymology
From peculiaris.

Translations

 * Czech:, ,
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian: tavatu, kummaline
 * Finnish:, , , ,
 * French: particulier, extraordinaire, bizarre, curieux


 * Italian:
 * Korean: 기묘한
 * Macedonian: необичен, чуден
 * Portuguese:, ,
 * Russian:, ,
 * Spanish:
 * Turkish: ,


 * Dutch:
 * Estonian: iseäralik, omapärane
 * French: particulier
 * Italian:


 * Macedonian:, карактеристичен
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:

Adjective

 * 1) peculiar