Adjective

(en-adj)

(not comparable) Single; sole; singular; not having a mate.

(obsolete) Singular in excellence; unique; sole; matchless; peerless; famous.

Singular in looks or character; peculiar; eccentric.

Strange, unusual.

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(not comparable) Occasional; infrequent.

* (Sir Walter Scott), Guy Mannering – or The Astrologer

I assure you, if I were Hazlewood I should look on his compliments, his bowings, his cloakings, his shawlings, and his handings with some little suspicion; and truly I think Hazlewood does so too at some odd times.

(not comparable) Left over, remaining when the rest have been grouped.

(not comparable) Casual, irregular, not planned.

(not comparable, in combination with a number, not comparable) About, approximately.

(not comparable) Not divisible by two; not even.

Adjective

(en adjective)

Peculiar to a specific individual; eccentric.

* 1886 , (Robert Louis Stevenson), Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde , ch. 9:

At the time, I set it down to some idiosyncratic , personal distaste . . . but I have since had reason to believe the cause to lie much deeper in the nature of man.

* 1891 , (George MacDonald), The Flight of the Shadow , ch. 12:

It was no merely idiosyncratic experience, for the youth had the same: it was love!

* 1982 , Michael Walsh, " Music: A Fresh Falstaff in Los Angeles," Time , 26 April:

British Director Ronald Eyre kept the action crisp; he was correctly content to execute the composer's wishes, rather than impose a fashionably idiosyncratic view of his own.