Synonyms of the word oddball


ODDBALLANOMALY - ECCENTRIC - FLAKE - GEEK

oddball

  • n. An eccentric or unusual person.
  • n. (neuroscience) A deviant stimulus that appears among repetitive stimuli during an experiment, to trigger…
  • adj. Exotic, not mainstream.

anomaly

  • n. A deviation from a rule or from what is regarded as normal; an outlier.
  • n. Something or someone that is strange or unusual.
  • n. (sciences) Any event or measurement that is out of the ordinary regardless of whether it is exceptional…
  • n. (astronomy) Any of various angular distances.
  • n. (biology) A defect or malformation.
  • n. (quantum mechanics) A failure of a classical symmetry due to quantum corrections.
  • n. (dated) An irregularity or disproportion.

eccentric

  • adj. Not at or in the centre; away from the centre.
  • adj. Not perfectly circular; elliptical.
  • adj. Having a different center; not concentric.
  • adj. (of a person) Deviating from the norm; behaving unexpectedly or differently.
  • adj. (physiology, of a motion) Against or in the opposite direction of contraction of a muscle (e.g., such…
  • adj. Having different goals or motives.
  • n. One who does not behave like others.
  • n. A disk or wheel with its axis off centre, giving a reciprocating motion.
  • n. (slang) A kook.

flake

  • n. A loose filmy mass or a thin chiplike layer of anything.
  • n. A scale of a fish or similar animal.
  • n. (archaeology) A prehistoric tool chipped out of stone.
  • n. (informal) A person who is impractical, flighty, unreliable, or inconsistent; especially with maintaining…
  • n. A carnation with only two colours in the flower, the petals having large stripes.
  • v. To break or chip off in a flake.
  • v. (colloquial) To prove unreliable or impractical; to abandon or desert, to fail to follow through.
  • v. (technical) To store an item such as rope in layers.
  • v. (Ireland, slang) To hit (another person).
  • n. (Britain) Dogfish.
  • n. (Australia) The meat of the gummy shark.
  • n. (Britain, dialect) A paling; a hurdle.
  • n. A platform of hurdles, or small sticks made fast or interwoven, supported by stanchions, for drying codfish…
  • n. (nautical) A small stage hung over a vessel's side, for workmen to stand on while calking, etc.
  • n. (nautical) Alternative form of fake (“turn or coil of cable or hawser”).

geek

  • n. (dated) A carnival performer specializing in bizarre and unappetizing behavior.
  • n. (colloquial) A person who is intensely interested in a particular field or hobby and usually asocial.…
  • n. (colloquial, by extension) An expert in a technical field, particularly one having to do with computers.
  • n. (colloquial) The subculture of geeks; an esoteric subject of interest that is marginal to the social mainstream;…
  • n. (colloquial) An unfashionable or socially undesirable person.
  • v. (colloquial) To behave geekishly or in a socially awkward manner, especially when under the influence…
  • n. (Australia, colloquial) A look.
  • v. (Cornwall) To look; to peep; to stare about intently.

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