Synonyms: unusual
Definition: not commonly encountered
Usage: two-career families are no longer unusual
Similar words: uncommon
Definition: not common or ordinarily encountered; unusually great in amount or remarkable in character or kind
Usage: uncommon birds; frost and floods are uncommon during these months; doing an uncommon amount of business; an uncommon liking for money; he owed his greatest debt to his mother's uncommon character and ability
Synonyms: unusual
Definition: not usual or common or ordinary
Usage: a scene of unusual beauty; a man of unusual ability; cruel and unusual punishment; an unusual meteorite
Similar words: different
Definition: differing from all others; not ordinary
Usage: advertising that strives continually to be different; this new music is certainly different but I don't really like it
Similar words: extraordinary
Definition: (of an official) serving an unusual or special function in addition to those of the regular officials
Usage: an ambassador extraordinary
Similar words: odd
Definition: not easily explained
Usage: it is odd that his name is never mentioned
Similar words: out-of-the-way
Definition: out of the ordinary
Usage: out-of-the-way information
Similar words: peculiar
Definition: markedly different from the usual
Usage: a peculiar hobby of stuffing and mounting bats; a man...feels it a peculiar insult to be taunted with cowardice by a woman-Virginia Woolf
Similar words: unaccustomed
Definition: not customary or usual
Usage: an unaccustomed pleasure; many varieties of unaccustomed foods; a new budget of unaccustomed austerity
Similar words: unique
Definition: highly unusual or rare but not the single instance
Usage: spoke with a unique accent; had unique ability in raising funds; a frankness unique in literature; a unique dining experience
Definition: being definitely out of the ordinary and unexpected; slightly odd or even a bit weird
Usage: a strange exaltation that was indefinable; a strange fantastical mind; what a strange sense of humor she has
Similar words: fantastic, fantastical, grotesque, antic
Definition: ludicrously odd
Usage: Hamlet's assumed antic disposition; fantastic Halloween costumes; a grotesque reflection in the mirror
Similar words: crazy
Definition: bizarre or fantastic
Usage: had a crazy dream; wore a crazy hat
Similar words: curious, queer, funny, odd, peculiar, rum, rummy, singular
Definition: beyond or deviating from the usual or expected
Usage: a curious hybrid accent; her speech has a funny twang; they have some funny ideas about war; had an odd name; the peculiar aromatic odor of cloves; something definitely queer about this town; what a rum fellow; singular behavior
Definition: inspiring a feeling of fear; strange and frightening
Usage: an uncomfortable and eerie stillness in the woods; an eerie midnight howl
Similar words: exotic
Definition: strikingly strange or unusual
Usage: an exotic hair style; protons, neutrons, electrons and all their exotic variants; the exotic landscape of a dead planet
Similar words: freaky
Definition: strange and somewhat frightening
Usage: the whole experience was really freaky
Similar words: gothic
Definition: characterized by gloom and mystery and the grotesque
Usage: gothic novels like `Frankenstein'
Similar words: oddish
Definition: somewhat strange
Similar words: other
Definition: very unusual; different in character or quality from the normal or expected
Usage: a strange, other dimension...where his powers seemed to fail- Lance Morrow
Similar words: quaint
Definition: strange in an interesting or pleasing way
Usage: quaint dialect words; quaint streets of New Orleans, that most foreign of American cities
Similar words: quaint
Definition: very strange or unusual; odd or even incongruous in character or appearance
Usage: the head terminating in the quaint duck bill which gives the animal its vernacular name- Bill Beatty; came forth a quaint and fearful sight- Sir Walter Scott; a quaint sense of humor
Similar words: weird
Definition: strikingly odd or unusual
Usage: some trick of the moonlight; some weird effect of shadow- Bram Stoker