| Main Entry: | quirk |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | oddity of personality, way of doing something |
Synonyms: |
aberration, caprice, characteristic, conceit, crotchet, eccentricity, equivocation, fancy, fetish, foible, habit, humor, idiosyncrasy, idée fixe, irregularity, kink, knack, mannerism, peculiarity, quibble, singularity, subterfuge, trait, turn, twist, vagary, whim, whimsy |
| Main Entry: | aberration |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | state of abnormality |
Synonyms: |
delusion, eccentricity, oddity, peculiarity, quirk, strangeness, weirdness |
Antonyms: |
conformity, normality, regularity, soundness |
| Main Entry: | attribute |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | feature |
Synonyms: |
aspect, character, characteristic, facet, idiosyncrasy, indication, mark, note, particularity, peculiarity, point, property, quality, quirk, sign, speciality, symbol, trait, virtue |
| Main Entry: | caprice |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | sudden change of behavior |
Synonyms: |
bee, caper*, changeableness, contrariety, crotchet, fad, fancy, fickleness, fitfulness, fool notion, freak, gag, humor, impulse, inconsistency, inconstancy, jerk, kink, mood, notion, peculiarity, perversity, put on*, quirk, rib, temper, thought, vagary, vein, whim, whimsy |
Antonyms: |
constancy, constant, dependability, steadfastness |
| Main Entry: | curl |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | loop, ringlet, curve |
Synonyms: |
coil, crimp, crispation, curlicue, flourish, frizz, kink, quirk, spiral, swirl, twist, wave, whorl |
Antonyms: |
line |
| Main Entry: | curve |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | arched, rounded line or object |
Synonyms: |
ambit, arc, arch, bend, bight, bow, camber, catenary, chord, circle, circuit, circumference, compass, concavity, contour, crook, curlicue, curvation, curvature, ellipse, festoon, flexure, hairpin, half-moon, helix, horseshoe, hyperbola, incurvation, incurvature, loop, meniscus, ogee, parabola, quirk, rondure, round, sinuosity, sweep, swerve, trajectory, turn, vault, whorl |
Antonyms: |
line |
| Main Entry: | eccentricity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | bizarreness, unusualness |
Synonyms: |
aberration, abnormality, anomaly, caprice, capriciousness, foible, freakishness, hereticism, idiocrasy, idiosyncrasy, irregularity, kink, nonconformity, oddity, oddness, outlandishness, peculiarity, queerness, quirk, singularity, strangeness, unconventionality, unorthodoxness, waywardness, weirdness, whimsicality, whimsicalness |
Antonyms: |
commonality, dullness, normality, regularness, standard, uniformity, usual, usualness |
| Main Entry: | epigram |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | witticism |
Synonyms: |
aphorism, bon mot, joke, motto, pithy saying, quip, quirk |
| Notes: | an epigram is a short statement that makes an interesting, frequently profound, observation about life or the world; an epigraph is a statement culled from the writings or sayings of someone else and used as the heading |
| Main Entry: | exception |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | special case; irregularity |
Synonyms: |
allowance, anomalism, anomaly, departure, deviation, difference, dispensation, eccentricity, exemption, freak, inconsistency, nonconformity, oddity, peculiarity, perquisitor, privilege, privileged person, quirk |
Antonyms: |
normality, regularity, usualness |
| Main Entry: | fad |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | craze |
Synonyms: |
affectation, amusement, caprice, chic, conceit, cry, custom, dernier cri, eccentricity, fancy, fantasy, fashion, fool notion, frivolity, furor, hobby, humor, in, in thing, innovation, kick, kink, latest word, mania, mode, new look, newest wrinkle, passing fancy, passion, quirk, rage, sport, style, thing, trend, vagary, vogue, whim, whimsy, wrinkle |
Antonyms: |
standard, tradition |