Definizione monolingua

peculiar

peculiar (comparative more peculiar, superlative most peculiar)

1. Out of the ordinary; odd; curious; unusual.

   Its rather peculiar to see a Kangaroo outside of a zoo in America.

   • 1800, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Deseret Weekly, Volume 41, page 379,

     I saw nothing peculiar in his conduct, and thought that his arrangement of the ballot box was perfect.

   • 2001, Jack Schaefer, Wendell Minor, Shane,

     ""Wasnt it peculiar,"" I heard mother say, ""How he wouldnt talk about himself?""

     ""Peculiar?"" said father. ""Well, yes, in a way.""

     ""Everything about him is peculiar."" Mother sounded as if she was stirred up and interested. ""I never saw a man quite like him before.""

   • 2008, Stephen Arnott, Peculiar Proverbs: Weird Words of Wisdom from Around the World.
2. Common or usual for a certain place or circumstance; specific or particular.

   Kangaroos are peculiar to Australia.

   • 1855, Immanuel Kant, John Miller Dow Meiklejohn (translator), Critique of Pure Reason, Volume 1, Division 2, per 1781, Immanuel Kant, Critik der reinen Vernunft,

     This philosopher found his ideas especially in all that is practical,^[29] that is, which rests upon freedom, which in its turn ranks under cognitions that are the peculiar product of reason.

   • 1863, Thomas Huxley, Collected Essays:

     As soon as that operation has taken place, the food is passed down to the stomach, and there it is mixed with the chemical fluid called the gastric juice, a substance which has the peculiar property of making soluble and dissolving out the nutritious matter in the grass, and leaving behind those parts which are not nutritious;

   • 1895, Alfred Russel Wallace, Island Life, XX: Anomalous Islands: Celebes,

     But of late years extensive Tertiary deposits of Miocene age have been discovered, showing that it is not a mere congeries of volcanoes; it is connected with the British Islands and with Greenland by seas less than 500 fathoms deep; and it possesses a few mammalia, one of which is peculiar, and at least three peculiar species of birds.

     Note: The author is here referring to Iceland.

Definizione dizionario peculiar

	strano
	out of the ordinary
	Out of the ordinary.

	peculiare
	common or usual for a particular place or circumstance

bizzaro

bizzarro

caratteristico

comico

curioso

divertente

eccentrico

estroso

particolare

peregrino

singolare

speciale

stranno

straordinario

tipico

Altri significati:

Common or usual for a certain place or circumstance; specific or particular.

peculiar (to)

Out of the ordinary; odd; curious; unusual.