PECULIAR


Meaning of PECULIAR in English

adjective

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

a strange/peculiar/odd habit

He had a lot of peculiar habits, one of them being to stare at you without blinking.

strange/odd/peculiar/funny

The sweets had a rather peculiar taste.

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADVERB

most

I've always found the settlements on the A82 between Crianlarich and Glencoe most peculiar .

Everyone thought that my crossing the Rann by camel was a most peculiar idea.

They really were a most peculiar bunch.

It transpired that Lord Uxbridge had made a most peculiar will.

About a year later a most peculiar way out of the difficulty was found by Max Planck.

But Coppock's reasoning is not the most peculiar theory around.

very

It's very peculiar - he made me feel a fool.

About 1 percent of all recovered meteorites are the very peculiar carbonaceous chondrite stones.

Any past Minister of Health who wanted to be Minister of Health again would have very peculiar tastes.

But something very peculiar is going on.

Just footballers, that very peculiar animal much prone to foot in the mouth.

At latitudes greater than about thirty degrees, impact craters have a very peculiar appearance never seen on the Moon.

It's a very peculiar sensation.

This is a very peculiar but decorative plant which in submersed form differs conspicuously from the other members of the family.

■ NOUN

form

It was a peculiar form of lateral thinking, inspired by instinct.

This is our peculiar form of assimilation.

As many have pointed out, the receiver's agency is a peculiar form of agency.

But bear in mind that self-defeating organizations function according to their own peculiar form of behavioral logic.

The definition itself is arguable given the peculiar form of intelligence required for membership.

kind

Weaver shows, for example, that a certain peculiar kind of process is occurring when public enterprise objectives are being determined.

thing

But then she noticed a peculiar thing .

The storming of the supermarket before a storm is quite a peculiar thing .

It was a very peculiar thing .

The altitude does peculiar things to people.

It was, she realized, a peculiar thing to own.

way

Nails felt his stomach contract in a peculiar way .

But it is notable for another reason: It has a peculiar way of determining the gender of its babies.

In some peculiar way he seemed to be getting into his stride.

The light coming up from the freeway illuminated his face in a peculiar way .

About a year later a most peculiar way out of the difficulty was found by Max Planck.

One person stops and looks at me in a peculiar way . l lose the nerve to ask.

Well, he was paying so let him get on with it in his peculiar way .

His 14 years in Congress have made him wise to its peculiar ways and means.

PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

funny peculiar or funny ha-ha?

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

Glenn started acting peculiar after his wife's funeral.

I've been having very peculiar dreams the past few weeks.

I heard a peculiar warbling from the living room.

Martha has been a little peculiar lately.

She's actually very friendly in her own peculiar way.

This cheese has a peculiar smell.

This meat tastes peculiar .

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

All the other peculiar effects of camp environment were bad.

And why would Psyche pay any attention to this peculiar idea?

During the brief voyage Tom lived in a peculiar atmosphere of doom and of heroic, unselfish courage.

It was the enlightened afrancesados who were to confuse political issues by their peculiar relation to liberalism.

Some questions seem obvious and others peculiar .

The origins of Gironella's peculiar assemblages lie in his childhood.

This is our peculiar form of assimilation.

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