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/icons/point.icon STRANGE, SINGULAR, UNIQUE, PECULIAR, ECCENTRIC, ERRATIC, ODD, QUAINT, OUTLANDISH mean departing from what is ordinary, usual, or to be expected.
STRANGE stresses unfamiliarity and may apply to the foreign, the unnatural, the unaccountable.
e.g. a journey filled with strange sights
SINGULAR suggests individuality or puzzling strangeness.
e.g. a singular feeling of impending disaster
UNIQUE implies singularity and the fact of being without a known parallel.
e.g. a career unique in the annals of science
PECULIAR implies a marked distinctiveness.
e.g. the peculiar status of America's first lady
ECCENTRIC suggests a wide divergence from the usual or normal especially in behavior.
e.g. the eccentric eating habits of preschoolers
ERRATIC stresses a capricious and unpredictable wandering or deviating.
e.g. a friend's suddenly erratic behavior
ODD applies to a departure from the regular or expected.
e.g. an odd sense of humor
QUAINT suggests an old-fashioned but pleasant oddness.
e.g. a quaint fishing village
OUTLANDISH applies to what is uncouth, bizarre, or barbaric.
e.g. outlandish fashions of the time
adjective
attractively unusual or old-fashioned:
古風で趣きのある, 風変わりでおもしろい
e.g. quaint country cottages
e.g. a quaint old custom.
DERIVATIVES
quaintness |ˈkwāntnəs| noun
ORIGIN
Middle English: from Old French cointe, from Latin cognitus ‘ascertained’, past participle of cognoscere. The original sense was ‘wise, clever’, also ‘ingenious, cunningly devised’, hence ‘out of the ordinary’ and the current sense (late 18th century).