Englisheccentric
adjective
they were worried by his eccentric behavior:
unconventional, uncommon, abnormal, irregular, aberrant, anomalous, odd, queer, strange, peculiar, weird, bizarre, off-center, outlandish, freakish, extraordinary;
idiosyncratic, quirky, singular, nonconformist, capricious, whimsical;
French outré, avant garde;
informal way out, far out, offbeat, nutty, screwy, freaky, oddball, wacky, cranky, off the wall, madcap, zany;
British, informal rum, dotty;
North American, informal kooky, wacko, bizarro, in left field.
▷antonyms ordinary; conventional.
noun
like all princes he was something of an eccentric:
oddity, odd fellow, unorthodox person, character, individualist, individual, free spirit, misfit;
informal oddball, weirdo, weirdie, freak, nut, nutcase, case, head case, crank, crackpot, loony, loon;
British, informal one-off, odd bod, nutter, queer fish;
North American, informal wacko, wack, screwball, kook;
US, informal wackadoo, wackadoodle;
Australian, New Zealand, informal dingbat.
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