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Meaning of peculiar


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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  peculiar
      adj 1: beyond or deviating from the usual or expected; "a
             curious hybrid accent"; "her speech has a funny twang";
             "they have some funny ideas about war"; "had an odd
             name"; "the peculiar aromatic odor of cloves"; "something
             definitely queer about this town"; "what a rum fellow";
             "singular behavior" [syn: {curious}, {funny}, {odd},
             {peculiar}, {queer}, {rum}, {rummy}, {singular}]
      2: unique or specific to a person or thing or category; "the
         particular demands of the job"; "has a particular preference
         for Chinese art"; "a peculiar bond of sympathy between them";
         "an expression peculiar to Canadians"; "rights peculiar to
         the rich"; "the special features of a computer"; "my own
         special chair" [syn: {particular(a)}, {peculiar(a)},
         {special(a)}]
      3: markedly different from the usual; "a peculiar hobby of
         stuffing and mounting bats"; "a man...feels it a peculiar
         insult to be taunted with cowardice by a woman"-Virginia
         Woolf
      4: characteristic of one only; distinctive or special; "the
         peculiar character of the Government of the U.S."- R.B.Taney


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