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| ADJECTIVE: | 1. Departing from the normal: aberrant, abnormal, anomalistic, anomalous, atypic, atypical, deviant, divergent, irregular, preternatural. See GOOD, USUAL. 2. Deviating from the customary: bizarre, cranky, curious, eccentric, erratic, freakish, idiosyncratic, odd, outlandish, peculiar, quaint, queer, quirky, singular, strange, unusual, weird. Slang : kooky, screwball. British Slang : rum, rummy2. See USUAL. 3. Marked by unnaturalness, pretension, and often a slavish love of fads: artificial, factitious, plastic, synthetic. See HONEST. 4. Greatly exceeding or departing from the normal course of nature: preternatural, supernatural. See USUAL.
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