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say it: i-KLEK-tik
eclectic is a noun and adjective meaning "someone who selects according to the eclectic method". It is pronounced /ɪˈklɛktɪk/ — i-KLEK-tik. It carries 2 recorded senses.
someone who selects according to the eclectic method
selecting what seems best of various styles or ideas
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for eclectic come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.