eccentric
adjective/ɪkˈsentrɪk/
/ɪkˈsentrɪk/
- considered by other people to be strange or unusual
- eccentric behaviour/clothes
- an eccentric aunt
Extra Examples- His behaviour grew increasingly eccentric as time went on.
- She was the classic eccentric old lady, living with a houseful of cats.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverbs- be
- look
- seem
- …
- extremely
- fairly
- very
- …
Word Originlate Middle English (as a noun denoting a circle or orbit not having the earth precisely at its centre): via late Latin from Greek ekkentros, from ek ‘out of’ + kentron ‘centre’.
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