unusual

Plural: unusuals

Adjective

• Not common or ordinary; remarkable or unique.
• not usual or common or ordinary
  • "a scene of unusual beauty"
  • "a man of unusual ability"
  • "cruel and unusual punishment"
  • "an unusual meteorite"
• being definitely out of the ordinary and unexpected; slightly odd or even a bit weird

Adjective Satellite

• not commonly encountered
  • "two-career families are no longer unusual"

Adj

• Not usual, out of the ordinary.

Noun

• Something that is unusual; an anomaly.

Examples

• Every once in a while, though, Idol comes across an unusual talent who just blows everyone away.
• Finding a triple-word score for an UNUSUAL seven-letter word brought an unexpected surge of points.
• His behavior was unusual in that it was considered childish for a man of his age.
• It’s definitely not unusual for a couple to meet through friends or be set up on a date.
• I’ve had no problem with female docs. I’ve had some – how should I say it – unusual experiences with a couple of male ones. And I have heard from girlfriends about their unusual experiences as well.

Synonyms

strange, aberrant, abnormal, alien, anomalous, as queer as Dick's hatband, bizarre, curious, deviant, discrepant, eerie, eldritch, errant, exceptional, extraordinary, fey, forby, freak, freakish, freaky, fremd, funny, heteroclite, hinky, incongruitous, incongruous, irregular, kooky, monstrous, nonstandard, odd, out of the ordinary, outlandish, outré, peculiar, quaint, queer, queer as Dick's hatband, queer as a clockwork orange, queer as a coot, queer as a nine bob note, queer as a three dollar bill, rare, remarkable, rum, rummy, selcouth, seld, singular, trippy, uncanny, uncommon, unconventional, unearthly, unexpected, unreasonable, unusual, unwonted, weird, weirdsome, yampy

Antonyms

familiar, usual, common, normal, ordinary

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