eccentric
adjective
[ ɪkˈsɛntrɪk ]
• (of a person or their behaviour) unconventional and slightly strange.
• "he noted her eccentric appearance"
Similar:
unconventional,
uncommon,
abnormal,
irregular,
aberrant,
anomalous,
odd,
queer,
strange,
peculiar,
weird,
bizarre,
off-centre,
outlandish,
freakish,
extraordinary,
idiosyncratic,
quirky,
singular,
nonconformist,
capricious,
whimsical,
outré,
avant garde,
way out,
far out,
offbeat,
nutty,
screwy,
freaky,
oddball,
wacky,
cranky,
off the wall,
madcap,
zany,
rum,
dotty,
kooky,
wacko,
bizarro,
in left field,
• not placed centrally or not having its axis or other part placed centrally.
• "a servo driving an eccentric cam"
eccentric
noun
• a person of unconventional and slightly strange views or behaviour.
• "he's seen as a local eccentric"
Similar:
oddity,
odd fellow,
unorthodox person,
character,
individualist,
individual,
free spirit,
misfit,
oddball,
weirdo,
weirdie,
freak,
nut,
nutcase,
case,
head case,
crank,
crackpot,
loony,
loon,
one-off,
odd bod,
nutter,
queer fish,
wacko,
wack,
screwball,
kook,
wackadoo,
wackadoodle,
dingbat,
• a disc or wheel mounted eccentrically on a revolving shaft in order to transform rotation into backward-and-forward motion, e.g. a cam in an internal combustion engine.
Origin:
late Middle English (as a noun denoting a circle or orbit not having the earth precisely at its centre): via late Latin from Greek ekkentros, from ek ‘out of’ + kentron ‘centre’.
