idiosyncratic

idiosyncratic

idiosyncratic (comparative more idiosyncratic, superlative most idiosyncratic)

1. 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 composers wishes, rather than impose a fashionably idiosyncratic view of his own.

caratteristico

individuale

peculiare

Altri significati:

Peculiar to a specific individual; eccentric.

peculiar to a specific individual

Traduzione 'veloce'

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