EGAVE

eccentric

About 3.24 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. adjective Not at or in the centre; away from the centre.
  2. adjective Not perfectly circular; elliptical.
    As of 2008, Margaret had the most eccentric orbit of any moon in the solar system, though Nereid's mean eccentricity is greater.
  3. adjective Having a different center; not concentric.
  4. adjective Of a person, deviating from the norm; behaving unexpectedly or differently; unconventional and slightly strange.
  5. adjective Of a motion, 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).
  6. adjective Having different goals or motives.
  7. adjective 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.
  8. noun One who does not behave like others.

Similar words

outre bizarre oddball outlandish freaky freakish unconventional case off-center type

Often followed by

and in or to is rod old character as

Word family

eccentrically eccentrics

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