idiosyncratic

Definition

Peculiar to a specific individual; eccentric.

Etymology

From idiosyncrasy + -ic. By surface analysis, idio- + syn- + -cratic.

Example Sentences

• "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!"
• "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."

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