idiosyncratic

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Pronunciation
/ˌɪd.i.əʊ.sɪŋˈkɹæt.ɪk/
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/ˌɪd.i.əʊ.sɪŋˈkɹæt.ɪk/ · /-ˌsɪŋ-/ · /ˌɪd.i.oʊ.sɪŋˈkɹæt.ɪk/ · [ˌɪd.i.oʊ.sɪŋˈkɹæɾ.ɪk] · /ˌɪd.i.əʉ.sɪŋˈkɹæt.ɪk/ · [ˌɪd.i.əʉ.sɪŋˈkɹæɾ.ɪk] · /ˌəd.i.ɐʉ.səŋˈkɹɛt.ək/ · [ˌəd.i.ɐʉ.səŋˈkɹɛɾ.ək] · /-ˌsəŋ-/

Definition of idiosyncratic

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adj

  1. Peculiar to a specific individual; eccentric.
    “At the time, I set it down to some idiosyncratic, personal distaste […] but I have since had reason to believe the cause to lie much deeper in the nature of man.”
    “It was no merely idiosyncratic experience, for the youth had the same: it was love!”
    “British Director Ronald Eyre kept the action crisp; he was correctly content to execute the composer's wishes, rather than impose a fashionably idiosyncratic view of his own.”
    “I’m not saying that [Charlie] Kaufman’s film will be enshrined as a classic, as those [Stanley] Kubrick films are. It’s too idiosyncratic and demanding for that: many viewers will be thinking of ending it halfway through”
    “The name “Quentin” clearly operates as a lucky charm if you’re an idiosyncratic film-maker, especially if you deal with sudden death, craziness and Z-movie Americana.”

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Etymology

From idiosyncrasy + -ic. By surface analysis, idio- + syn- + -cratic.

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