Definition of unusual Unusual
/ʌnjuˈʒuˌʌl/ - [unyushuul] - un•u•su•al
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| unusual - not usual or common or ordinary; "a scene of unusual beauty"; "a man of unusual ability"; "cruel and unusual punishment"; "an unusual meteorite" | ||
| usual occurring or encountered or experienced or observed frequently or in accordance with regular practice or procedure; "grew the usual vegetables"; "the usual summer heat"; "came at the usual time"; "the child's usual bedtime" | ||
| uncommon not common or ordinarily encountered; unusually great in amount or remarkable in character or kind; "uncommon birds"; "frost and floods are uncommon during these months"; "doing an uncommon amount of business"; "an uncommon liking for money"; "he owed his greatest debt to his mother's uncommon character and ability" | ||
| usualness commonness by virtue of not being unusual | ||
| different differing from all others; not ordinary; "advertising that strives continually to be different"; "this new music is certainly different but I don't really like it" | ||
| extraordinary (of an official) serving an unusual or special function in addition to those of the regular officials; "an ambassador extraordinary" | ||
| odd not easily explained; "it is odd that his name is never mentioned" | ||
| out-of-the-way out of the ordinary; "out-of-the-way information" | ||
| peculiar characteristic of one only; distinctive or special; "the peculiar character of the Government of the U.S."- R.B.Taney | ||
| unaccustomed not habituated to; unfamiliar with; "unaccustomed to wearing suits" | ||
| unusual - not commonly encountered; "two-career families are no longer unusual" | ||
| uncommon not common or ordinarily encountered; unusually great in amount or remarkable in character or kind; "uncommon birds"; "frost and floods are uncommon during these months"; "doing an uncommon amount of business"; "an uncommon liking for money"; "he owed his greatest debt to his mother's uncommon character and ability" | ||
| unusual - being definitely out of the ordinary and unexpected; slightly odd or even a bit weird; "a strange exaltation that was indefinable"; "a strange fantastical mind"; "what a strange sense of humor she has" | ||
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| familiar having mutual interests or affections; of established friendship; "on familiar terms"; "pretending she is on an intimate footing with those she slanders" | ||
| antic, fantastical, grotesque, fantastic ludicrously odd; "Hamlet's assumed antic disposition"; "fantastic Halloween costumes"; "a grotesque reflection in the mirror" | ||
| crazy intensely enthusiastic about or preoccupied with; "crazy about cars and racing"; "he is potty about her" | ||
| rum, rummy, queer, curious, funny, peculiar, odd, singular eager to investigate and learn or learn more (sometimes about others' concerns); "a curious child is a teacher's delight"; "a trap door that made me curious"; "curious investigators"; "traffic was slowed by curious rubberneckers"; "curious about the neighbor's doings" | ||
| eery, eerie inspiring a feeling of fear; strange and frightening; "an uncomfortable and eerie stillness in the woods"; "an eerie midnight howl" | ||
| exotic strikingly strange or unusual; "an exotic hair style"; "protons, neutrons, electrons and all their exotic variants"; "the exotic landscape of a dead planet" | ||
| freaky strange and somewhat frightening; "the whole experience was really freaky" | ||
| gothic characterized by gloom and mystery and the grotesque; "gothic novels like `Frankenstein'" | ||
| oddish somewhat strange | ||
| other very unusual; different in character or quality from the normal or expected; "a strange, other dimension...where his powers seemed to fail"- Lance Morrow | ||
| quaint strange in an interesting or pleasing way; "quaint dialect words"; "quaint streets of New Orleans, that most foreign of American cities" | ||
| quaint strange in an interesting or pleasing way; "quaint dialect words"; "quaint streets of New Orleans, that most foreign of American cities" | ||
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Wiktionary 
Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- unusual (a.)
Not usual; uncommon; rare; as, an unusual season; a person of unusual grace or erudition.
OmegaWiki DictionaryOmegaWiki Dictionary Ω
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Unlike what is expected; differing in some way from the norm. -
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Out of the ordinary. -
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Of strange or extraordinary character. -
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Seldom found or seldom occurring. -
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Out of the ordinary.
Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕
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unusual
un-ū′zhū-al, adj. not usual or common.—n. Unusual′ity, rarity.—adv. Unū′sually.—n. Unū′sualness
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