Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Not usual, common, or ordinary.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Not usual; not frequent; not common; rare; strange; as, an unusual season; a person of unusual erudition.
- Synonyms Uncommon, unwonted, singular, remarkable, odd.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Not usual; uncommon; rare.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. being definitely out of the ordinary and unexpected; slightly odd or even a bit weird
- adj. not usual or common or ordinary
- adj. not commonly encountered
Examples
“According to the cable obtained by the website WikiLeaks, U.S. officials reported that Israel worked with the Chilean government to monitor what it called "unusual activity" by Iran's envoy to Santiago.”
Voice of America: WikiLeaks: Israel, Chile Spied on Iranian Activity in Latin America
“He noted that the city's wealthiest ZIP Codes—Fifth Avenue, Park, Central Park West—are in its geographic center rather than along its edges, which he described as unusual.”
“To this he adds what he calls unusual circumstances, including "the fruits and tailwinds of globalization, billions of people added to the labor supply, new factories and productivity coming from places it had never come from before.”
“Back in bed, Walters said he heard the dog bark once, which he characterized as unusual.”
“They like to do what they call unusual things; they like to shock people -- think it's smart.”
“Rice, speaking after President Obama's meeting with U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, praised what she described as an "unusual and important" sense of urgency in the U.N. Security Council's response to the crisis in Libya, where thousands of citizens have formed a mass protest demanding Qaddafi's ouster.”
“Mayweather's lawyer, Karen Winckler, said she may appeal what she called the unusual sentence handed down Wednesday.”
“Karen Winckler, said she may appeal what she called an unusual sentence.”
“Melissa, You must be right about the word unusual - that only makes sense.”
“Pop rockers Darius Rucker and Jewel were crossing over to country about the same time, which he called unusual in country music.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘unusual’.
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Words That Have Lost All Meaning
Words that, if you stare at them long enough, they cease to look like real words.
awkward, people, eighth, rhythm, abysmal, aisle, theater, queue, jeopardy, labyrinth, proxy, stoic and 8 more...
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intueri's Words
inveigle, dolorous, archly, feckless, resplendent, concatenation, peripatetic, delightful, cookie, fey, ephemeral, effervescent and 347 more...
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Apples to Apples: Green Cards
A complete list of the green cards (adjectives) from the popular word game.
absurd, addictive, adorable, aged, American, ancient, animated, annoying, appetizing, arrogant, awesome, awkward and 237 more...
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Basic English Vocabulary
Very basic words for ESL students.
contemplate, container, consumer, consultant, consensus, conscious, conscience, connection, confusion, confront, conflict, confident and 4334 more...
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Rilakkuma's list
The Velvetine Ruffians
gamine, waif, ruffian, villain, rake, libertine, velvetine, luminary, nom de plume, street urchin, epicurean, eventide and 256 more...
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kewpid's Words
moleskine, araldite, dessicate, cellar door, grotesque, fallacy, vendetta, raindrop, panacea, ethereal, hircus, treppenwitz and 446 more...
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Unusual and Random Words
My Favourite Kind
quagmire, soliloquy, aardvark, topaz, ardent, exquisite, pyromania, pyre, extravagant, obscure, quetzal, quibble and 199 more...
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my dictionary
able, abnormally, abroad, absent, abstract, acceptable, acceptance, access, accessible, accession, according to, account and 4551 more...
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OM2 Lesson 16
cookout, backyard, skewer, shish kebab, anyone, grill, hot, sheep, lamb, nobody, mistaken, somebody and 23 more...
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weird
strange, unusual, out of the box, different, diverse, unique, weird, unbelievable, impossible, catnip, domineering, somnambulist and 20 more...
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gekkogirl's Words
giggle, furrow, unusual, fallible, witty, beneficial, juicy, derelict, sentimental, erratic, quail, rusty
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My English Vocabulary
English words I'm learning in class, reading, browsing Internet, etc.
cloak, robe, cape, wrist, stomach, kidney, glove, spectacles, mosque, easy going, former, egocentric and 28 more...
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funky-monkey95's list
cornucopia, single, dilate, dream, thirst, sing, dilinquent, trusted, sight, forseen, sunshine, basket and 50 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for unusual.
oroboros Laid up in the hospital, James Thurber passed the time doing crossword puzzles.
One day he asked a nurse, “What seven-letter word has three u’s in it?�?
She said, “I don’t know, but it must be unusual.�?
(via futilitycloset.com) Oct 26, 2009
chained_bear I guess because the middle U is pronounced with a "yu" sound rather than a "uh" or "oo." Oct 20, 2007
frangarnes No. Sometimes the "j" consonant is before "ʊ" vowel. Examples: university /jʊ:nɪ'vɜ:sɪtɪ/, uniform /'jʊ:nɪfɔ:m/, useful /'jʊ:sfʊl/. Why? I don't know! Oct 20, 2007
seanahan What is the "j" doing in that pronunciation? Is in standing for something funny? Oct 20, 2007
frangarnes /ʌn'jʊ:ʒʊəl/ Oct 19, 2007
frangarnes Poco común, raro Oct 19, 2007