Definitions for eccentric

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eccentric ec·cen·tric

Spelling: [ik-sen-trik, ek-]

IPA: /ɪkˈsɛn trɪk, ɛk-/

Eccentric is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 19 points.

You can make 178 anagrams from letters in eccentric (ccceeinrt).

Definitions for eccentric

noun

1. a person who has an unusual, peculiar, or odd personality, set of beliefs, or behavior pattern.
2. something that is unusual, peculiar, or odd.
3. Machinery. a device for converting circular motion into rectilinear motion, consisting of a disk fixed somewhat off-center to a revolving shaft, and working freely in a surrounding collar (eccentric strap) to which a rod (eccentric rod) is attached.

adjective

1. deviating from the recognized or customary character, practice, etc.; irregular; erratic; peculiar; odd:
2. Geometry. not having the same center; not concentric: used especially of two circles or spheres at least one of which contains the centers of both.
3. (of an axis, axle, etc.) not situated in the center.
4. Machinery. having the axis or support away from the center:
5. Astronomy. deviating from a circular form, as an elliptic orbit.

Origin of eccentric

1350-1400; Medieval Latin eccentricus Greek ékkentr(os) out of center (see ec-, center) + Latin -icus -ic

Examples for eccentric

eccentric, they call me; as if Nature and beauty were abnormal!

I was wearing the eccentric costume of an Englishwoman in the year 1820.

At the proper intervals the valve is pulled down by the eccentric C.

eccentric she was, as I afterward found—as I thought when I first saw her.

She was one of the wealthiest women in the world and certainly the most eccentric noble of her time.

The women Peterson photographed were offbeat, eccentric, irreverent, and not conventionally pretty.

One of my most important mentors was a brilliant and eccentric rabbi from Bethesda, Maryland.

Those who have interacted with him describe him as brusque, eccentric, clenched.

Sometimes I wear my silk pyjamas when I am going for a walk in the mornings, does that make me eccentric?

"No, but I was wondering about the condition of the roads," replied the eccentric man.