eccentric

adj

1. unconventional, uncommon, unique, unusual, unorthodox, uncustomary, unwonted, rare, out of the ordinary; atypical, original, singular, exceptional, individual, lone, sole, solitary; unexampled, unparalleled, unprecedented, unfamiliar, uncomfortable; extraordinary, egregious, astonishing.

2. deviate, deviant, aberrant, stray, wayward, erratic, anomalous, anomalistic, abnormal, irregular, variable; peculiar, curious, queer, odd, oddish, offbeat, quizzical, cranky, Inf. funny, Inf. kinky, off-center, incongruous; quaint, droll, comical, laughable, Inf. quirky, idiosyncratic, flaky, Sl. balmy, Chiefly Brit. barmy; strange, weird, bizarre, freakish, grotesque, Sl. rum, Sl. far out; fanciful, whimsical, notional, crotchety, maggoty, capricious, fickle, waggish.

3. mad, demented, unbalanced, daft, touched, crack-brained, mad as a hatter or March hare; All Inf. cracked, dotty, daffy, Brit. potty, over the top, not all there, have bats in one's belfry, have a screw loose, have a few buttons missing, not playing with a full deck, have rooms to let; All Sl. screwy, screwball, mental, kooky, bugs, bughouse, squirrely, wacko, wacky, nuts, loony, loco, nutty, bananas, bats, batty, bonkers, cuckoo or coo-coo, dippy, off one's rocker, off the wall, out in left field, Brit. off one's chump.

4.All Geom. parabolic, hyperbolic, decentered; Astron. elliptic.

n

5. character, card, original, pip, sport, exception, individual, nonesuch, nondescript, bohemian; crank, fanatic; crazy, flake, freak, three-dollar bill, crackpot, rare bird, queer fellow, queer duck, queer fish, queer potato, Inf. fruitcake, Inf. dingbat, Inf. ding-a-ling; All Sl. weirdo, weirdy, weirdie, creep, oddball, screwball, nut, loony, looner, case, geezer, kook, odd duck, squirrel.

6. curiosity, curio, oddity, peculiarity, rarity; aberration, aberrance, aberrancy, deviation, anomaly, Rare. anomalism.