Idiosyncratic

/ˌɪd.i.əʊ.sɪŋˈkɹæt.ɪk/ · adjective

Meaning

Peculiar to a specific individual; eccentric..

Example Sentences

At the time, I set it down to some idiosyncratic, personal distaste […] but I have since had reason to believe the cause to lie much deeper in the nature of man.

It was no merely idiosyncratic experience, for the youth had the same: it was love!

British Director Ronald Eyre kept the action crisp; he was correctly content to execute the composer's wishes, rather than impose a fashionably idiosyncratic view of his own.

I’m not saying that [Charlie] Kaufman’s film will be enshrined as a classic, as those [Stanley] Kubrick films are. It’s too idiosyncratic and demanding for that: many viewers will be thinking of ending it halfway through

The name “Quentin” clearly operates as a lucky charm if you’re an idiosyncratic film-maker, especially if you deal with sudden death, craziness and Z-movie Americana.

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• more idiosyncratic
• most idiosyncratic

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