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/ənjˈuʒˌuəl/ /ənjˈuʒwəl/ Listen

Unusual

adjective

Not usual or common or ordinary. "A man of unusual ability" , "Cruel and unusual punishment" , "An unusual meteorite"

Being definitely out of the ordinary and unexpected; slightly odd or even a bit weird. Synonym: strange. "A strange fantastical mind" , "What a strange sense of humor she has"

Not commonly encountered.

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"Unusual" Quotes from Famous Books

... got out. I perceived the man look oddly at me as I paid him. I dare say there was something unusual in my looks and manner, for I had never felt so ...

— Green Tea; Mr. Justice Harbottle • Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

... 5.15! Gertrude's memory rapidly ran through her list of Monday classes and pupils. One of the pupils was ill and, a most unusual thing, she would be free at four o'clock! She need not go to the station in her school dress, but have time to come home and put on something pretty. It was very jolly of Cecil to have thought of writing. Of course she would go ...

— The Girls of St. Olave's • Mabel Mackintosh

... friend. One morning the house-physician gave him a new case, a man; and, seating himself at the bedside, Philip proceeded to write down particulars on the 'letter.' He noticed on looking at this that the patient was described as a journalist: his name was Thorpe Athelny, an unusual one for a hospital patient, and his age was forty-eight. He was suffering from a sharp attack of jaundice, and had been taken into the ward on account of obscure symptoms which it seemed necessary to watch. He answered ...

— Of Human Bondage • W. Somerset Maugham

... a council of able ministers continued the policy of the late king and taught the young queen her first lessons in statecraft. Her intellect soon showed itself as more than that of a child. She understood all that was taking place, and all that was planned and arranged. Her tact was unusual. Her discretion was admired by every one; and after a while she had the advice and training of the great Swedish chancellor, Oxenstierna, whose wisdom she shared ...

— Famous Affinities of History, Vol 1-4, Complete - The Romance of Devotion • Lyndon Orr

... himself against any injudicious exposure of his feelings is forgotten, and falls into abeyance—and to such a degree indeed, that he will bravely applaud all by himself if he wants to—an exhibition of daring which is unusual elsewhere ...

— Innocents abroad • Mark Twain

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