| 单词 | peculiar |
| 释义 | peculiar (once / 73 pages) adj Something peculiar is notably unusual. If your friend starts saying strange things you don't understand, ask her why she's suddenly become peculiar. Peculiar comes from the Latin peculiaris, meaning one's own, or personal. In English, it originally meant belonging to one person, private, like your fondness for your peculiar hairbrush. It also had the meaning of something unlike others, special, or remarkable. Eventually we mostly stopped using it for belongings, instead using peculiar to mean unusual or odd. WORD FAMILYpeculiar: peculiarity, peculiarly+/peculiarity: peculiarities USAGE EXAMPLESThis applies, too, to bestselling books, but the difference is that books often sell well for peculiar and unique reasons. The Guardian(Jan 02, 2017) The stress I felt instead was the peculiar one of absolute! resistance! to something you don’t necessarily need to resist. Washington Post(Dec 28, 2016) The DNA test “helps us understand we’re not all from one special place, which is really peculiar to America,” Devor said. Washington Post(Dec 24, 2016) 1adj beyond or deviating from the usual or expected the peculiar aromatic odor of cloves Syn curious, funny, odd, queer, rum, rummy, singular strange, unusual being definitely out of the ordinary and unexpected; slightly odd or even a bit weird 2adj 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 Syn unusual not usual or common or ordinary 3adj unique or specific to a person or thing or category a peculiar bond of sympathy between them an expression peculiar to Canadians rights peculiar to the rich Syn particular, special specific (sometimes followed by `to') applying to or characterized by or distinguishing something particular or special or unique 4adj characteristic of one only; distinctive or special "the peculiar character of the Government of the U.S."- R.B.Taney Syn characteristic typical or distinctive |
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