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peculiar in English:

1. very weird



English word "peculiar"(very weird) occurs in sets:

new opportunities - intermediate

2. wacky


Children love clowns because their wacky clothes and antics make them laugh.
You're a wacky guy.
Have you heard of that wacky fashion website?
By inference, their inventor is sometimes regarded as a wacky innovator who was perhaps out of touch with reality. But Fuller’s career involved a great deal more than domes.

English word "peculiar"(wacky) occurs in sets:

vocabulary 2

3. strange


Strange.
We found many strange plants in a botanical garden.
He sometimes makes me feel strange when we meet each other face to face.
Even though I felt that there was something strange, I just didn't know what it was.
I needed a lot of courage to try eating that strange food.
Everything happened very quickly and it was all very strange.
A face with too much make up looks strange.
People no longer consider it strange for men to let their hair grow long.
Private detectives were hired to look into the strange case.
If it's an aggressive strange salesman, then call me right away. I'll chase him off.
When I had to learn English in school, at times I would bemoan all the irregularities and strange rules.
Sentences? once more, the shopkeeper was confused by Dima's strange ramblings.
The map on page 11 looks very strange. Turn it upside down. Then it becomes a familiar map to you.
Using only "Tom" and "Mike" in many sentences is very strange.

English word "peculiar"(strange) occurs in sets:

synonimy, antonimy 2

4. strange often in an unpleasant way



5. unusual


That's unusual.
Valencia is famous for its unusual architecture.
You don't have to come up with an unusual topic for your speech.
In the case of patient death during the course of medical treatment, even if there is medical error present, it is not automatically legally considered to be an "unusual death."
Innovation has something to do with the faculty to notice unusual phenomena.
That's an unusual hobby she's got, the transfer student. "She's cute so it's fine with me."
Some clarinetists use clarinets tuned to A instead of B flat in passages which would otherwise be written in unusual keys.
In an unusual move, this school's big band uses slide trumpets and valve trombones exclusively.
But in many ways, the bird called Alex is unusual, for it has shown the kind of mental abilities that scientists once thought only humans had.
Engagement gifts should always be unusual and special to honour the occasion.
creepiest, most unusual person I've ever met.
If something is unusual, it does not happen very often or you do not see it or hear it very often(2) If you describe someone as unusual, you think that they are interesting and different from other people
1. Everything here is so unusual. / 2. It is not so unusual.
The unusual architecture of Astana makes it look like a space-age city.
You cant find some really unusual things in this shop.

English word "peculiar"(unusual) occurs in sets:

angielski słówka 2a

6. whimsical