idiosyncratic
/ˌɪd.i.oʊ.sɪŋˈkɹæt.ɪk/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.94 in modern English
21
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
6
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Peculiar to a specific individual; eccentric.
Example Sentences
- "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."
Etymology
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˌɪd.i.oʊ.sɪŋˈkɹæt.ɪk/
- British English: /ˌɪd.i.əʊ.sɪŋˈkɹæt.ɪk/
Inflected Forms
more idiosyncratic (comparative)
most idiosyncratic (superlative)