| Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. 1995. |
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| ADJECTIVE: | 1. Deviating from the customary: bizarre, cranky, curious, eccentric, erratic, freakish, idiosyncratic, odd, outlandish, peculiar, quaint, queer, quirky, singular, strange, unnatural, weird. Slang : kooky, screwball. British Slang : rum, rummy2. See USUAL. 2. Rarely occurring or appearing: infrequent, occasional, rare, scarce, sporadic, uncommon. Idioms: few and far between. See USUAL. 3. Far beyond what is usual, normal, or customary: exceptional, extraordinary, magnificent, outstanding, preeminent, rare, remarkable, singular, towering, uncommon. Informal : standout. Slang : awesome, out of sight. See BETTER, USUAL. 4. Not usual or ordinary: atypic, atypical, novel, unconventional, unordinary, unwonted. Slang : offbeat. See USUAL.
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