Crossword-Solution: ECCENTRIC
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Eccentric | a. | 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. |
| Eccentric | a. | 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. |
| Eccentric | a. | Pertaining to an eccentric; as, the eccentric rod in a steam engine. |
| Eccentric | a. | Not coincident as to motive or end. |
| Eccentric | a. | 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. |
| Eccentric | n. | A circle not having the same center as another contained in some measure within the first. |
| Eccentric | n. | One who, or that which, deviates from regularity; an anomalous or irregular person or thing. |
| Eccentric | n. | In the Ptolemaic system, the supposed circular orbit of a planet about the earth, but with the earth not in its center. |
| Eccentric | n. | A circle described about the center of an elliptical orbit, with half the major axis for radius. |
| Eccentric | n. | 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. |
We have 93 clues for the answer “ECCENTRIC”
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| Peculiar fellow | 1 answer |
| ODD, as a person's personality | 1 answer |
| An odd fellow. | 1 answer |
| A little weird | 2 answers |
| Like a three-dollar bill | 4 answers |
| UNCONVENTIONAL person | 5 answers |
| Quirky | 9 answers |
| A PERSON WITH AN UNUSUAL OR ODD PERSONALITY | 11 answers |
| fogey | 15 answers |
| Kooky | 17 answers |
| FISH out of water, like a | 17 answers |
| Fey | 19 answers |
| Kinky | 22 answers |
| offbeat | 23 answers |
| Out of the ordinary | 24 answers |
| STUBBORN person | 26 answers |
| Geek | 26 answers |
| Crackpot | 30 answers |
| unconformable | 30 answers |
| Idiosyncratic | 31 answers |
| DERANGED person | 32 answers |
| zealous advocate | 33 answers |
| Screwball | 34 answers |
| teched | 34 answers |
| brainsick | 35 answers |
| nutsy | 35 answers |
| unsociable person | 37 answers |
| Weirdo | 37 answers |
| crackbrained | 37 answers |
| Kook | 37 answers |
| Tetched. | 37 answers |
| bedlamite | 37 answers |
| Batty | 39 answers |
| reasonless | 39 answers |
| Odd person | 40 answers |
| Zombie | 40 answers |
| Uncommon | 40 answers |
| unrealistic | 41 answers |
| screwy | 41 answers |
| Fogy | 42 answers |
| Bohemi-an | 43 answers |
| insane person | 43 answers |
| CRANK ___ | 43 answers |
| Suspect | 46 answers |
| freak | 46 answers |
| Maniac | 47 answers |
| Rocky ___ | 50 answers |
| Dotty | 52 answers |
| Madman | 53 answers |
| Fanatic | 54 answers |
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One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EARTE
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Sentences with ECCENTRIC (5)
That day, as other solem dayes, they spent In song and dance about the sacred Hill, Mystical dance, which yonder starrie Spheare Of Planets and of fixt in all her Wheeles Resembles nearest, mazes intricate, Eccentric, intervolv’d, yet regular Then most, when most irregular they seem: And in thir motions harmonie Divine So smooths her charming tones, that Gods own ear Listens delighted.
This use is of course related to the common slang use of the word to describe a person as eccentric, crazy, or just unreliable.
The first was a will, drawn in the same eccentric terms as the one which he had returned six months before, to serve as a testament in case of death and as a deed of gift in case of disappearance; but, in place of the name of Edward Hyde, the lawyer, with indescribable amazement, read the name of Gabriel John Utterson.
You are like an eccentric old woman I know in Boston, who goes about in the spring feeding catnip to street cats.
This creature will only think that I am an eccentric Englishwoman eloping with her lacquey, if you’ll sit down and partake of this semblance of supper beside me.” Indeed, Brogard having placed what was strictly necessary upon the table, seemed not to trouble himself any further about his guests.
Quotes with ECCENTRIC (3)
Often, moreover, it is... that aspect of our being that society finds eccentric, ridiculous, or disagreeable, that holds our sweet waters, our secret well of happiness, the key to our equanimity in malevolent climes.
Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
... unfools of unbeing ... means quite clearly people who are too stereotyped to be eccentric — people who are too dead spiritually to exist at all and who call alive individual fools
Where this answer appears
Appears in: LAT, Newsday, NYT, Universal, WSJ.
Used 12 times in crossword archives (1959–2023).