peculiarly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɪˈkjuljɚli/
ipa: /pɪˈkjuːljəli/
Forms: form: more peculiarly
form: most peculiarly
Etymology: From peculiar + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: He has a peculiarly strong accent.
text: This racehorse is peculiarly fast.
text: Democratic society is peculiarly dependent for its maintenance upon the use in forming a course of study of criteria which are broadly human.
ref: 1916, John Dewey, “Section 14”, in Democracy and Education:
text: He begged pardon, and was getting into the carriage, but felt he must glance at her once more; not that she was very beautiful, not on account of the elegance and modest grace which were apparent in her whole figure, but because in the expression of her charming face, as she passed close by him, there was something peculiarly caressing and soft.
ref: 1917, “Chapter 18”, in Garnett, Constance, transl., Anna Karenina, part one, translation of Анна Каренина by Leo Tolstoy, published 1877:
glosses: Such as to be greater than usual; particularly; exceptionally.
To greater degree than is usual.
qualifier: degree
examples: text: One of the phenomena which had peculiarly attracted my attention was the structure of the human frame, and, indeed, any animal endued with life.
ref: 1818, Mary Shelley, “Chapter 4”, in Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus:
text: I feel that the Progressive Party should appeal peculiarly to the young men--and therefore to the boys--who ought to be the next generation of voters.
ref: 1913 July 3, Theodore Roosevelt, Address to the Boys Progressive League:
topics: manner
glosses: Such as to be greater than usual; particularly; exceptionally.
In a manner that is greater than usual.
examples: text: His nose is peculiarly bent.
glosses: Such as to be strange or odd.
Strangely, oddly.
qualifier: degree
examples: text: He dresses peculiarly.
topics: manner
glosses: Such as to be strange or odd.
In a strange or perverse manner; strangely.
examples: text: Peculiarly, his hat is on upside-down.
glosses: Such as to be strange or odd.
Such as to be strange or odd.
qualifier: evaluative
examples: text: Peculiarly, he left through the window.
text: Peculiarly, he sat bolt upright and shouted "Geronimo!" whenever John Wayne appeared.
glosses: Such as to be strange or odd.
Acting in strange or perverse way.
qualifier: act-related
glosses: Strongly associated with; in a manner that is peculiar or restricted to some person or place.
examples: text: Having red hair and freckles is a characteristic that is peculiarly Northern European.
text: She was carried home quite exhausted; the only sign she gave of consciousness was, that when they were about to take her to the room which had formerly been her own, she raised her head, and feebly insisted on being taken to her uncle's. Every thing there was peculiarly his, and there she had gazed, for the last time, on his inanimate features; in that room she could call up his image more distinctly than elsewhere.
ref: 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “The Last Night with the Dead”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 317:
text: This is one of the methods of procedure. The other is through man to God. The second is peculiarly Aryan, and the first is peculiarly Semitic.
ref: 1907, Swami Vivekananda, “The Methods and Purpose of Religion”, in The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda, volume 6:
text: However, he already gave strong indication of the peculiarly Russian genius for naturalness or realism, and was a true Russian in his simplicity of style.
ref: 1917, “Introduction”, in Seltzer, Thomas, transl., Best Russian Short Stories:
text: This does not take into account the tens of thousands of New Yorkers who are harmlessly and charmingly insane in a peculiarly Manhattanite manner.
ref: 1946, George Johnston, Skyscrapers in the Mist, page 52:
text: Railway grouping had caused some peculiarly Scottish phraseology to disappear, though the note "Stops on timous notice to the guard" survived until comparatively recently.
ref: 1956 April, K. H. Rudolph, “Fun with "'Bradshaw"”, in Railway Magazine, page 253:
glosses: Strongly associated with; in a manner that is peculiar or restricted to some person or place.
Mostly or solely associated with.
qualifier: degree
raw_tags: of a place or circumstance
Synonyms: sense: in a manner that is greater than usual
word: in particular
word: specifically
sense: in a strange or perverse manner
word: oddly
word: queerly
word: strangely