eccentric
noun
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
a person with an unusual or odd personality
Types & categories
- unusual person hypernym
- screwball hyponym
- nutter hyponym
Sense 2 adjective
conspicuously or grossly unconventional or unusual
restaurants of bizarre design--one like a hat, another like a rabbit
Related & opposite
- freakishness derivation
- outlandishness derivation
- eccentricity derivation
- craziness derivation
- unconventional similar to
Sense 3 noun
a person of a specified kind (usually with many eccentricities)
a real character
Types & categories
- adult hypernym
Related & opposite
Sense 4 adjective
not having a common center; not concentric
eccentric circles
Related & opposite
- concentric antonym
- eccentricity derivation
- eccentricity derivation
- acentric similar to
- off-center similar to
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | unusual person |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | screwball |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | nutter |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | freakishness |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | outlandishness |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | eccentricity |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | craziness |
| 2 | similar to | Related & opposite | unconventional |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | type |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | typify |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | typic |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | adult |
| 4 | antonym | Related & opposite | concentric |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | eccentricity |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | eccentricity |
| 4 | similar to | Related & opposite | acentric |
| 4 | similar to | Related & opposite | off-center |