Thesaurus:eccentric

Thesaurus

eccentric

English

Adjective

Sense: behaving unexpectedly or differently

Synonyms

• aberrant
• abnormal
• anomalous
• balmy (US, informal)
• barmy (Britain, Ireland)
• bizarre
• crackpot
• cranky
• eccentric
• eccentrical
• erratic
• excentrical
• extraordinary
• far-out
• freakish
• heteroclite
• idiocentric
• idiosyncratic
• irregular
• kookish (slang)
• kooky (slang)
• nutbar (slang)
• odd
• oddballish
• off-centre
• outlandish
• outré
• peculiar
• pixilated
• queer
• quirky
• quizzy (dated)
• spacy
• squirrelly
• uncommon
• wacky
• weird
• whimsical
• whimsome
• wifty
• Wodehousian
• Wonkaesque

Antonyms

• consistent
• conventional
• mainstream
• normal    [⇒ thesaurus]
• ordinary
• uneccentric

Hypernyms

• strange    [⇒ thesaurus]
• unconventional

Various

• foible
• idiosyncrasy
• quirk

See also

• Thesaurus:insane
• Thesaurus:strange person

Further reading

• “83. unconformity” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
• “eccentric” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.