eccentric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪkˈsɛntɹɪk/
ipa: /ɛkˈsɛntɹɪk/
homophone: excentric
rhymes: -ɛntɹɪk
Forms: form: more eccentric
form: most eccentric
form: eccentrick
form: excentric
form: excentrick
Etymology: From Middle French excentrique, from Medieval Latin eccentricus, from Ancient Greek ἔκκεντρος (ékkentros, “not having the earth as the center of an orbit”), from ἐκ (ek, “out”) + κέντρον (kéntron, “point”). Equivalent to ex- + -centric.
Senses: examples: text: Strikingly, we see that party births tend systematically to be at policy positions that are significantly more eccentric than those of surviving parties, whatever decision rule these parties use.
ref: 2011, Michael Laver, Ernest Sergenti., Party Competition: An Agent-Based Model, page 125:
glosses: Not at or in the centre; away from the centre.
examples: text: As of 2008, Margaret had the most eccentric orbit of any moon in the solar system, though Nereid's mean eccentricity is greater.
glosses: Not perfectly circular; elliptical.
glosses: Having a different center; not concentric.
examples: text: 1801, Author not named, Fyfield (John), entry in Eccentric Biography; Or, Sketches of Remarkable Characters, Ancient and Modern, page 127,
He was a man of a most eccentric turn of mind, and great singularity of conduct.
text: Such is not the case with Mr. Martin Van Butchell, one of the most eccentric characters to be found in the British metropolis, and a gentleman of indisputable science and abilities, but whose strange humors and extraordinary habits, have rather tended to obscure than to display the talents he possessed.
ref: 1807, G. H. Wilson, editor, The Eccentric Mirror, volume 3, page 17:
text: There can be no doubt that as a matter of fact a religious life, exclusively pursued, does tend to make the person exceptional and eccentric.
ref: 1902, William James, “Lecture I”, in The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature […] , New York, N.Y.; London: Longmans, Green, and Co. […], →OCLC:
text: Khedron was the only other person in the city who could be called eccentric—and even his eccentricity had been planned by the designers of Diaspar.
ref: 1956, Arthur C. Clarke, The City and the Stars, published 2012, unnumbered page:
glosses: Deviating from the norm; behaving unexpectedly or differently; unconventional and slightly strange.
raw_tags: of a person
topics: medicine
physiology
sciences
glosses: Against or in the opposite direction of contraction of a muscle (such as results from flexion of the lower arm (bending of the elbow joint) by an external force while contracting the triceps and other elbow extensor muscles to control that movement; opening of the jaw while flexing the masseter).
raw_tags: of a motion
examples: a. 1626, Francis Bacon, 1867, Richard Whately (analysis and notes), James R. Boyd (editor), Essay XI: Wisdom for a Man's Self, Lord Bacon's Essays, page 171,
[…] for whatsoever affairs pass such a man's hands he crooketh them to his own ends, which must needs be often eccentric to those of his master or state: […]
glosses: Having different goals or motives.
examples: text: Oospores may be centric, subcentric, subeccentric or eccentric. Antheridial branches may or may not be present, and are androgynous, monoclinous, diclinous or hypogynous.
ref: 2014, Nicky B. Buller, Bacteria and Fungi From Fish and Other Aquatic Animals: A Practical Identification Manual, 2nd edition, Boston, M.A.: CABI, →ISBN, page 687:
topics: biology
mycology
natural-sciences
glosses: Having or being an oospore with a single large oil globule on one side that displaces much of the ooplasm and forces the ooplasts to one side.
Synonyms: sense: not at or in the centre
word: eccentrical
sense: not at or in the centre
word: excentrical
sense: not perfectly circular
word: eccentrical
sense: not perfectly circular
word: excentrical
sense: having a different centre
word: eccentrical
sense: having a different centre
word: excentrical
sense: deviating from the norm
word: eccentrical
word: excentrical
word: odd
word: abnormal
sense: having different goals or motives
word: eccentrical
sense: having different goals or motives
word: excentrical
word: aberrant
word: anomalous
word: balmy
word: barmy
word: bizarre
word: crackpot
word: cranky
word: eccentric
word: erratic
word: extraordinary
word: far-out
word: freakish
word: heteroclite
word: idiocentric
word: idiosyncratic
word: irregular
word: kookish
word: kooky
word: nutbar
word: oddballish
word: off-centre
word: outlandish
word: outré
word: peculiar
word: pixilated
word: queer
word: quirky
word: quizzy
word: spacy
word: squirrelly
word: uncommon
word: wacky
word: weird
word: whimsical
word: whimsome
word: wifty
word: Wodehousian
word: Wonkaesque
Hypernyms: word: strange
word: unconventional
Derived terms: eccentric abstraction
eccentrically
eccentric anomaly
eccentricate
eccentric contraction
eccentric flint
eccentric hypertrophy
eccentric kangaroo unicycle
eccentrize
isoeccentric
photoeccentric
uneccentric
Related terms: word: central
word: centric
word: eccentricity
word: foible
word: idiosyncrasy
word: quirk
word: insane
word: strange person