Eccentric is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for ECCENTRIC in dictionary:

NOUN:
• one who is odd or unconventional
• a person of unconventional and slightly strange views or behaviour
• a disc or wheel mounted eccentrically on a revolving shaft in order to transform rotation into backward-and-forward motion, e.g. a cam in an internal combustion engine.
• A circle not having the same center as another contained in some measure within the first.
• One who, or that which, deviates from regularity; an anomalous or irregular person or thing.
• In the Ptolemaic system, the supposed circular orbit of a planet about the earth, but with the earth not in its center.
• A circle described about the center of an elliptical orbit, with half the major axis for radius.
• A disk or wheel so arranged upon a shaft that the center of the wheel and that of the shaft do not coincide. It is used for operating valves in steam engines, and for other purposes. The motion derived is precisely that of a crank having the same throw.
• a person with an unusual or odd personality
• a person of a specified kind (usually with many eccentricities)
• eccentric person
ADJECTIVE:
• odd or unconventional, also ECCENTRICAL
• (of a person or their behaviour) unconventional and slightly strange
• not placed centrally or not having its axis or other part placed centrally
• (of a circle) not centred on the same point as another.
• (of an orbit) not circular.
• Deviating or departing from the center, or from the line of a circle; as, an eccentric or elliptical orbit; pertaining to deviation from the center or from true circular motion.
• Not having the same center; -- said of circles, ellipses, spheres, etc., which, though coinciding, either in whole or in part, as to area or volume, have not the same center; -- opposed to concentric.
• Pertaining to an eccentric; as, the eccentric rod in a steam engine.
• Not coincident as to motive or end.
• Deviating from stated methods, usual practice, or established forms or laws; deviating from an appointed sphere or way; departing from the usual course; irregular; anomalous; odd; as, eccentric conduct.
• conspicuously or grossly unconventional or unusual
• not having a common center; not concentric
• odd or unconventional
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• deviating from an established or usual pattern or style; deviating from conventional or accepted usage or conduct especially in odd or whimsical ways

Words related to ECCENTRIC

crackpot18 eccentrical17 eccentrically22 eccentrics16 excentric20 wiggy13

Words that contain ECCENTRIC

eccentrics16 eccentrical17 uneccentric17 eccentricity21 eccentrically22 eccentricities20

How to use ECCENTRIC in a sentence

• It was from them that he got the reputation of being an eccentric.
• He explained an interesting little bit of the plot, which included an eccentric will and other novelties.
• Alford, the farmer, was a blunt, good-humored, and rather eccentric man, shrewd and well to do, but kindly and charitable.
• The language was Spanish, and the dresses were, to say the least, eccentric.
• Eccentric, description of, sometimes made loose for backing.
• Then, at any time should your eccentric slip, you have only to bring it back to the chisel mark and fasten it, and you are ready to go ahead again.
• Some thought he was rather eccentric, but I never found him so.
• Darwin was very clever, but really a most eccentric man.
• This world of ours, though usually steady enough in its movements, is at times decidedly eccentric.
• If we knew the inner life of many of the people we meet, we would be very gentle with them and would excuse the things in them that seem strange or eccentric to us.
• Nor is he a friend who assumes that the poet, because a poet, moves in eccentric paths rather than in concentric circles.
• Within the ample sheltering arms of the Mother Church many eccentric cults will develop.
• Mills was a very eccentric man and anecdotes of him have been repeatedly told.
• You remember my telling you I had heard he was eccentric and despite his brilliant career a little touched on religious matters.
• In some parts of the world, Marcus might have objected to walking publicly with a man of such an eccentric demeanor.
• The institutions for the training of idiots should be greatly multiplied, and should have a department for awkward, eccentric, and backward children.
• All great acting has a certain strain of extravagance which the imitators catch hold of and give us the eccentric body without the sublime soul.
• As his life advanced he grew more and more wayward, capricious, and eccentric.
• Your grandfather was a trifle eccentric, I judge, but not a fool by any manner of means.
• It is usually startlingly modern, even eccentric at the time at which it appears.
• They thought these strange movements of the planets were accomplished by mounting them on subsidiary eccentric wheels in the revolving crystal sphere.
• But, sounded to its depths, this new current of thought appears not only not eccentric but inevitable.
• The reaction against this eccentric being was a fanaticism.
• And she resolved that another time she would be slow in blaming any eccentric conduct in Hetty, and would wait till she could get at the motive which inspired it.

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