PECULIAR | definition in the Cambridge English Dictionary
Meaning of peculiar in English
peculiar adjective
(STRANGE )
She has the most peculiar ideas . It 's peculiar that they didn't tell us they were going away.
strange She's a strange girl. odd I always thought there was something a bit odd about her. bizarre I had a really bizarre dream last night. weird His movies are so weird that I can barely get through them. funny This lemonade tastes funny. peculiar The chicken had a peculiar smell.
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peculiar adjective
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(Definition of peculiar from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
peculiar | Intermediate English
peculiar adjective [not gradable]
(STRANGE )
peculiar adjective [not gradable]
(BELONGING TO )
Katherine Hepburn’s way of talking was peculiar to her.
(Definition of peculiar from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary
Examples of peculiar
peculiar
Caring for her required me to repeat a series of tasks that had the peculiar quality of seeming both urgent and tedious.
Each is believed to bring its own peculiar and unique characteristics to the cycle.
This is wrong and yet onto something -- a peculiar labor theory of value.
Is it peculiar to a part of this country?
It's a call to a particular and peculiar way of life.
But the only other known drive also failed to explain the monkeys' peculiar behavior.
Either you were on its peculiar comic wavelength or you weren't, and the dividing line often seemed -- at least to me at the time -- generational.
But it also leaves us with a peculiar sense of loss that few of our ancestors ever felt.
One medicine among these peculiar cures, however, did prove effective: willow.
This is a peculiar tale of girls, ghosts, theme parks and alligator wrestling.
I dipped another one into my cup of tea and wondered aloud at the peculiar chemistry that goes into baking sweets without flour.
It was a peculiar answer and attention-grabbing to be certain.
They will have learned some skills peculiar to their fields, but they will learn most of what they need as they gain experience.
That the expansion started from a singularity is to use a peculiar constraint, and the observed theory implies an indefinite exponential expansion.
Ruf and colleagues also found peculiar hollows above the protomammal's secondary palate.
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Translations of peculiar
in Chinese (Traditional)
奇怪的, 奇怪的，古怪的, 屬於…
in Chinese (Simplified)
奇怪的, 奇怪的，古怪的, 属于…
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peculiar, extraño, peculiar [masculine-feminine…
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peculiar, específico/-ca…
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असाधारण, विलक्षण, असाधारण आणि चमत्कारिक…
particulier/-ière, spécial/-ale, étrange…
અસામાન્ય કે વિચિત્ર, ક્યારેક અરુચિકર રીતે, વિલક્ષણ…
märklig, besynnerlig, egendomlig…
eiendommelig, besynderlig, rar…
عجیب و غریب, جداگانہ, انوکھا…
дивний, ексцентричний, особистий…
అసాధారణమైన మరియు విచిత్రమైన, కొన్ని సార్లు అప్రియమైన రీతిలో, విశేషమైన…
অদ্ভুত, অস্বাভাবিক এবং অদ্ভুত, কখনও কখনও একটি অপ্রীতিকর উপায়ে…
podivný, bizarní, vlastní…
osobliwy, specyficzny, dziwny…
strano, stravagante, singolare…
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