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Idiosyncratic   /ɪdioʊsɪnkrˈætɪk/   Listen
Idiosyncratic

adjective
1.
Peculiar to the individual.  "Michelangelo's highly idiosyncratic style of painting"





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"Idiosyncratic" Quotes from Famous Books



... work of those who have been caught up and waylaid by the modern spirit. And yet Scott's novels have ample and admirable excellencies. In his expansive and digressive fashion he can give his characters—especially the older and the more idiosyncratic among them—a ...
— One Hundred Best Books • John Cowper Powys
... good things in life, the drinking of coffee may be abused. Indeed, those having an idiosyncratic susceptibility to alkaloids should be temperate in the use of tea, coffee, or cocoa. In every high-tensioned country there is likely to be a small number of people who, because of certain individual characteristics, can not drink coffee at all. These belong to the abnormal minority of ...
— All About Coffee • William H. Ukers


Words linked to "Idiosyncratic" :   individual, idiosyncrasy, single


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