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idiosyncratic

UK/ˌɪd.i.əʊ.sɪŋˈkɹæt.ɪk/US/ˌɪd.i.oʊ.sɪŋˈkɹæt.ɪk/

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idiosyncratic adjective: peculiar to a specific individual; eccentric.

Adjective

idiosyncratic (comparative more idiosyncratic, superlative most idiosyncratic)

  1. Peculiar to a specific individual; eccentric.
    • At the time, I set it down to some idiosyncratic, personal distaste […] but I have since had reason to believe the cause to lie much deeper in the nature of man.1886 January 5, Robert Louis Stevenson, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., →OCLC
    • It was no merely idiosyncratic experience, for the youth had the same: it was love!1891, George MacDonald, chapter 12, in The Flight of the Shadow

idiosyncratic meaning in Tamil, Bengali and Malayalam

idiosyncratic in Tamil

தனித்தன்மையான

idiosyncratic in Bengali

ব্যক্তিগত স্বভাবজাত, অদ্ভুত বৈশিষ্ট্যপূর্ণ

idiosyncratic in Malayalam

distinctive, individual, individualistic
വ്യക്തിയുടെ സവിശേഷതയായ, സവിശേഷമായ, വിശേഷമായുള്ള, വ്യതിരിക്തമായ, വൈയ്ക്തികമായ, വ്യക്തിപ്രധാനമായ

Examples of idiosyncratic in a sentence

  • British Director Ronald Eyre kept the action crisp; he was correctly content to execute the composer's wishes, rather than impose a fashionably idiosyncratic view of his own.1982 April 26, Michael Walsh, “Music: A Fresh Falstaff in Los Angeles”, in Time, archived from the original on 21 Oct 2010:
  • It’s too idiosyncratic and demanding for that: many viewers will be thinking of ending it halfway through2020 September 1, Nicholas Barber, “Five stars for I'm Thinking of Ending Things”, in BBC:
  • The name “Quentin” clearly operates as a lucky charm if you’re an idiosyncratic film-maker, especially if you deal with sudden death, craziness and Z-movie Americana.2021 July 4, Jonathan Romney, “‘I want to make people laugh’: Quentin Dupieux, the fun auteur of French cinema”, in The Observer, →ISSN...

Forms of idiosyncratic

comparativemore idiosyncratic
superlativemost idiosyncratic

Origin of idiosyncratic

From idiosyncrasy + -ic. By surface analysis, idio- + syn- + -cratic.

Words formed from idiosyncratic

Phrases with idiosyncratic

Words that rhyme with idiosyncratic

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Questions about idiosyncratic

What does idiosyncratic mean?
Idiosyncratic means peculiar to a specific individual; eccentric.
What is idiosyncratic in Tamil?
Idiosyncratic in Tamil is தனித்தன்மையான. See Idiosyncratic meaning in Tamil.
How do you use idiosyncratic in a sentence?
British Director Ronald Eyre kept the action crisp; he was correctly content to execute the composer's wishes, rather than impose a fashionably idiosyncratic view of his own.
What part of speech is idiosyncratic?
Idiosyncratic is an adjective.
How do you pronounce idiosyncratic?
Idiosyncratic is pronounced /ˌɪd.i.əʊ.sɪŋˈkɹæt.ɪk/ (UK).

Words near idiosyncratic in the dictionary

  1. idiosyncracies
  2. idiosyncracity
  3. idiosyncracy
  4. idiosyncrasies
  5. idiosyncrasy
  6. idiosyncratic
  7. idiosyncratic reaction
  8. idiosyncratic reactions
  9. idiosyncratical
  10. idiosyncratically
  11. idiosyncraticity

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: idiosyncratic (page history and authors); idiosyncratic (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); idiosyncratic (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); idiosyncratic (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). 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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