eccentric

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You can meet with VCs in a nice suit and still be your same friendly, eccentric self.

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Quick take

a person with an unusual or odd personality

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of eccentric gathered in one view.

noun

a person with an unusual or odd personality

noun

a person of a specified kind (usually with many eccentricities); "a real character"; "a strange character"; "a friendly eccentric"; "the capable type"; "a mental case"

adjective

conspicuously or grossly unconventional or unusual; "restaurants of bizarre design--one like a hat, another like a rabbit"; "famed for his eccentric spelling"; "a freakish combination of styles"; "his off-the-wall antics"; "the outlandish clothes of teenagers"; "outre and affected stage antics"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for eccentric.

noun

a person with an unusual or odd personality

noun

a person of a specified kind (usually with many eccentricities); "a real character"; "a strange character"; "a friendly eccentric"; "the capable type"; "a mental case"

adjective

not having a common center; not concentric; "eccentric circles"

Example sentences

You can meet with VCs in a nice suit and still be your same friendly, eccentric self.

My friends treat it as an eccentric novelty.

He is a brilliant guy, however he's also eccentric.

His particular demeanor and pattern of speech would likely make it seem not so much pompous as just eccentric.

Jesus, you people are delusional!You are not perceived as eccentric geniuses, not by anyone.

Not everyone can afford to be a recluse eccentric by ignoring the largest software providers on the planet.

The fact is, there are actually very few people who are true eccentrics like Steve Jobs who meet with important people wearing no shoes and smelling like patchouli.

I make my good impression and as any relationship matures with these people I slowly introduce them to my eccentricities.

A particularly wealthy but eccentric individual wanted to build a lavish home.

Klein was also a legitimately fascinating and eccentric character who I think would interest anybody that studied him.

After I had ended the this phase I received a lot of comments from people assuming I just never changed clothes, or at the very least found it to be unpleasantly eccentric behavior.

There is no shortage of diplomats, and a few eccentric and unwavering voices is then much more useful to maintain the goals of where we want to actually go without moving the goal in favor of diplomacy.

Highly eccentric, potentially useless for practical applications, and extremely intelligent.

Oh, you mean the sentence about how the eccentric scientist has been persecuted by the establishment for his contrarian work?To me, that sounds so much like the output of a journalist's nearest-cliche algorithm that it's impossible to say whether there's any truth in it, or how much.

He was described as "remote, coldly aloof, ruthless aristocrat, living in lonely magnificence, disdaining the common people... an exceptional man, a lone wolf whose strength and courage could be looked up to, but at the same time had to be feared; an eccentric, misanthropic genius whose haughty bearing, cold eye and steely reserve made it impossible to like or trust him." [Interesting anecdote: He had all the walls of his penthouse office at the Tribune covered with dark wood, including the door, so that after your meeting ended, you would have great difficulty finding the door to get back out, suffering under his humiliating gaze.