If you describe someone's actions or characteristics as idiosyncratic, you mean that they are rather unusual.
...a highly idiosyncratic personality.
...his erratic typing and idiosyncratic spelling.
Synonyms: distinctive, special, individual, typical More Synonyms of idiosyncratic
idiosyncratic in British English
(ˌɪdɪəʊsɪŋˈkrætɪk) or idiosyncratical
adjective
of or relating to idiosyncrasy; characteristic of a specific person
Derived forms
idiosyncratically (ˌidiosynˈcratically)
adverb
Examples of 'idiosyncratic' in a sentence
idiosyncratic
The organisers of the festival pride themselves on their idiosyncratic approach.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
But his determinedly idiosyncratic approach was evident quite early on.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
Yet his book is also idiosyncratic both in style and in some points of detail.
The Times Literary Supplement (2014)
His idiosyncratic style fathered no new language of art in this country.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
But those who have seen him at work say his idiosyncratic style is effective.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
The echoes of other writers fade and a strangely compelling and idiosyncratic new voice emerges.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
Each makes up a voice and an idiosyncratic map for its own city.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
The views presented here are an eclectic rather than an idiosyncratic choice.
Roper, Jon Democracy and its Critics - Anglo-American democratic thought in the nineteenth century (1989)
It was one of the many idiosyncratic tasks that went with close protection of a highly idiosyncratic personality.
Geraghty, Tony The Bullet Catchers (1989)
The Italian admits that his management style is idiosyncratic.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
Longer legs and great posture would be very welcome What makes your style idiosyncratic?
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
As his manuscript swelled, the publishers became unhappy with its idiosyncratic style.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
The selection is idiosyncratic in other ways, too.
The Times Literary Supplement (2014)
In his weird, idiosyncratic kind of way.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
He has also succeeded in seamlessly weaving his subject's idiosyncratic way of expressing himself into a compelling literary narrative form.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
In this epic but essentially unfinished and barely readable work he used a highly idiosyncratic form of language, which he claimed to have reconstructed.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
But the real star of the show is Shetland itself, with its stunning landscape and idiosyncratic way of life.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
In other languages
idiosyncratic
British English: idiosyncratic ADJECTIVE
If you describe someone's actions or characteristics as idiosyncratic, you mean that they are rather unusual.
...a highly idiosyncratic personality.
American English: idiosyncratic
Brazilian Portuguese: idiossincrático
Chinese: 不凡的
European Spanish: idiosincrático
French: singulier
German: eigenartig
Italian: particolare
Japanese: 風変わりな
Korean: 특이한
European Portuguese: idiossincrático
Latin American Spanish: idiosincrático
(adjective)
a highly idiosyncratic personality
Synonyms
distinctive
the distinctive odour of chlorine
special
It requires a very special brand of courage to fight dictators.