Breathtaking vs Unusual - What's the difference?
breathtaking | unusual |
stunningly beautiful; amazing
Very surprising or shocking; to such a degree as to cause astonishment.
Unlike what is expected; differing in some way from the norm.
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, passage=I had occasion […] to make a somewhat long business trip to Chicago, and on my return […] I found Farrar awaiting me in the railway station. He smiled his wonted fraction by way of greeting, […], and finally leading me to his buggy, turned and drove out of town. I was completely mystified at such an unusual proceeding.}}
Not usual.
As adjectives the difference between breathtaking and unusual
is that breathtaking is stunningly beautiful; amazing while unusual is unlike what is expected; differing in some way from the norm.breathtaking
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- He went to the and spent a week taking in the breathtaking scenery all around him.
- breathtaking beauty/stupidity/rudeness