Unusual

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Unusual \Un*u"su*al\, a.
     Not usual; uncommon; rare; as, an unusual season; a person of
     unusual grace or erudition. -- {Un*u"su*al*ly}, adv. --
     {Un*u"su*al*ness}, n.
     [1913 Webster]



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  unusual
       adj 1: not usual or common or ordinary; "a scene of unusual
              beauty"; "a man of unusual ability"; "cruel and
              unusual punishment"; "an unusual meteorite" [ant: {usual}]
       2: being definitely out of the ordinary and unexpected;
          slightly odd or even a bit weird; "a strange exaltation
          that was indefinable"; "a strange fantastical mind"; "what
          a strange sense of humor she has" [syn: {strange}] [ant: {familiar}]
       3: not commonly encountered; "two-career families are no longer
          unusual"

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  52 Moby Thesaurus words for "unusual":
     almost unheard-of, atypical, bizarre, breakaway, curious,
     different, eccentric, exceptional, extraordinary, extremely,
     freakish, infrequent, novel, odd, oddball, offbeat, original,
     outlandish, peculiar, quaint, queer, rare, rarely, recherche,
     remarkable, scarce, seldom met with, seldom seen, singular, slow,
     sparse, strange, sui generis, uncommon, uncommonly, unconventional,
     uncustomary, undreamed-of, unexpected, unfamiliar, unfrequent,
     unheard-of, unimaginable, unique, unordinary, unorthodox,
     unprecedented, unthinkable, unthought-of, untypical, unusually,
     unwonted