eccentric

1. 1.

   conspicuously or grossly unconventional or unusual

   “restaurants of bizarre design--one like a hat, another like a rabbit”

   “famed for his eccentric spelling”

   “a freakish combination of styles”

   “his off-the-wall antics”

   “the outlandish clothes of teenagers”

   “outre and affected stage antics”

   Synonymsbizarrefreakishfreakyflakyflakeygonzooff-the-walloutlandishoutre

   Similarunconventional
2. 2.

   not having a common center; not concentric

   “eccentric circles”

   Synonymsnonconcentric

   Antonymsconcentric

   Similaracentricoff-center

Other forms of eccentric

plural

eccentrics·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about eccentric

What does eccentric mean?

eccentric means "a person with an unusual or odd personality". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in eccentric?

eccentric has 3 syllables: ec-cen-tric. The stress falls on "cen". In IPA it is /ɪkˈsɛntɹɪk/.

What is another word for eccentric?

Close synonyms include eccentric person, flake, oddball, geek, character. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of eccentric?

The recorded antonyms are concentric.

Is eccentric a common word?

eccentric is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with eccentric?

5 words rhyme with eccentric. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.