Quirky vs Idiosyncratic - What's the difference?
quirky | idiosyncratic |
Given to quirks or idiosyncrasies; strange in a somewhat silly, awkward manner, potentially cute.
Peculiar to a specific individual; eccentric.
* 1886 , (Robert Louis Stevenson), Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde , ch. 9:
* 1891 , (George MacDonald), The Flight of the Shadow , ch. 12:
* 1982 , Michael Walsh, "
As adjectives the difference between quirky and idiosyncratic
is that quirky is given to quirks or idiosyncrasies; strange in a somewhat silly, awkward manner, potentially cute while idiosyncratic is peculiar to a specific individual; eccentric.quirky
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Adjective
(er)- She has a quirky laugh.
Derived terms
* quirkily * quirkiness * quirkyalone * quirky subject * unquirkyidiosyncratic
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- 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.
- It was no merely idiosyncratic experience, for the youth had the same: it was love!
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.
