eccentricaladj.
a. = eccentric adj. 1. Also figurative.
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the world > relative properties > order > disorder > disharmony or incongruity > [adjective]
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discordanta1393
discordinga1398
incongruea1398
inconvenient1398
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dissonant1490
disaccordanta1513
disagreeing?1526
incongruent1531
wide1531
unconsonant1535
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dissenting1550
dissident?c1550
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discordious1598
incorrespondent1599
dissentious1605
untunable1605
incongruous1611
unagreeing1611
unanswerable1611
eccentric1612
unconcurrent1613
disconsonant1614
dissentaneous1623
dissorting1631
uncorrespondent1631
discorrespondent1635
incoincident1636
unconcurring1639
eccentrical1640
unatonable1645
incompliant1647
pluranimous1650
disconformeda1658
inagreeable1657
inconsonant1658
disharmonious1659
inconcinn1660
discongruous1663
unharmonious1667
discoherent1675
uncongruous1709
inharmonious1749
immutual1768
unharmonized1803
unconsentaneous1818
inaccordant1822
uncorresponding1826
unharmonizing1851
non-concurring1866
discordful1867
disharmonic1887
non-concurrent1907
1640 Bp. J. Wilkins Disc. New Planet (1707) x. 262 Supposing the Earth to move in an Eccentrical Orb about the Sun.
1646 W. Dell Right Reformation Ep. Ded. sig. * Whose..interest is excentricall from the..interest of the Kingdome.
1658 Sir T. Browne Garden of Cyrus iv, in Hydriotaphia: Urne-buriall 169 Why in the knotts of Deale..the Circles are often eccentricall.
1669 W. Simpson Hydrologia Chymica 208 For want of some pregnant Principles..they [Physicians]..are mostwhat eccentrical to the truth.
b. Pertaining to an eccentric orbit. Obsolete.
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the world > relative properties > number > geometry > shape or figure > [adjective] > two-dimensional > circular > concentric > not
eccentric1556
eccentrical1641
1641 J. Milton Reason Church-govt. 4 With a kinde of eccentricall equation.
2. Out of the regular track; exceptional, irregular.
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the world > relative properties > kind or sort > individual character or quality > quality of being special or extraordinary > [adjective] > special, extraordinary, or unusual
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strangec1330
undeemousa1400
outragec1400
singularc1400
stravagant1565
unusual1582
extraordinarya1586
remarkable1593
exordinary1601
peculiar1608
stupendous1640
eccentricala1652
particular1665
out-of-the-way1675
uncommon1705
awfy1724
exceptionable1801
tremendous1831
exceptional1846
exceptive1849
exceptionary1850
spesh1874
heart-stopping1891
off-brand1929
wild1955
cracker1964
a1652 J. Smith Select Disc. (1859) ix. ix. 445 An all-seeing eye..governs the most eccentrical motions of creatures.
1704 Clarendon's Hist. Rebellion III. xv. 490 There were..many illegal and eccentrical Proceedings.
1768 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. II. 3 There is allowed in those cases an extrajudicial or eccentrical kind of remedy.
1827 R. Pollok Course of Time I. ii. 74 Vanity to be Renowned for creed eccentrical.
1845 G. Petrie Round Towers Ireland 29 Tops either pointed, or truncated at the summit, and ornamented with something eccentrical.
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