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Adjective peculiar has 4 senses
- curious, funny, odd, peculiar, queer, rum, rummy, singular - 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"
Antonym: familiar (indirect, via strange)
- particular, peculiar, special - unique or specific to a person or thing or category; "the particular demands of the job"; "has a paraticular 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"
Antonym: general (indirect, via specific)
Antonym: nonspecific (indirect, via specific)
- peculiar - 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
Antonym: usual (indirect, via unusual)
- peculiar - characteristic of one only; distinctive or special; "the peculiar character of the Government of the U.S."- R.B.Taney
Antonyms: uncharacteristic, uncharacteristic of (indirect, via characteristic)
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