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excentrically

excentrically is the alternative form of eccentrically.

Meaning of eccentrically

Adverb

eccentrically (comparative more eccentrically, superlative most eccentrically)

  1. In an eccentric manner.
    • The face which emerged was not reassuring.[…]. He was not a mongol but there was a deficiency of a sort there, and it was not made more pretty by a latter-day hair cut which involved eccentrically long elf-locks and oiled black curls.1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 17, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC

Origin of excentrically

From excentrical + -ly.

Questions about excentrically

What is excentrically the alternative form of?
Excentrically is the alternative form of eccentrically.

Words near excentrically in the dictionary

  1. excentral
  2. excentre
  3. excentres
  4. excentric
  5. excentrical
  6. excentrically
  7. excentricities
  8. excentricity
  9. excentrick
  10. excentricks
  11. excentrics

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Adapted from Wiktionary: excentrically (page history and authors); eccentrically (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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