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QUIRKY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does quirky mean?
• QUIRKY (adjective)
The adjective QUIRKY has 1 sense:
1. (informal) strikingly unconventional
Familiarity information: QUIRKY used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
| Declension: comparative and superlative |
Superlative: quirkiest
Sense 1
Meaning:
(informal) strikingly unconventional
Synonyms:
far-out; kinky; offbeat; quirky; way-out
Similar:
unconventional (not conventional or conformist)
Domain usage:
colloquialism (a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech)
Derivation:
quirk; quirkiness (a strange attitude or habit)
Context examples
The results help fill in crucial details about ices in Jupiter-family comets and reveal that quirky 45P doesn’t quite match any comet studied so far.
(NASA Telescope Studies Quirky Comet 45P, NASA)
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