Weirdos - English meaning

noun

A socially unconventional person, especially one who is involved in the arts.

Usage examples:

Warhol and the artists and bohemians he worked with in the 1960s

adjective

Socially unconventional in an artistic way.

Usage examples:

As an opera singer you live a bohemian lifestyle

adjective

Relating to bohemia or its people.

Usage examples:

The tombs of bohemian kings

noun

The mental and moral qualities distinctive to an individual.

Usage examples:

Running away was not in keeping with her character

verb

Inscribe or write (something).

Usage examples:

You have well charactered him

noun

The particular combination of things about a person or place, esp. things you cannot see, that make that person or place different from others

Usage examples:

[ c ] the idea was to modernize the house without changing its homey character., [ u ] it’s a theat…

noun

An eccentric or foolish person.

Usage examples:

People who claim famous past identities are usually dismissed as crackpots

adjective

Eccentric; impractical.

Usage examples:

His head's full of crackpot ideas

noun

A crazy or strange person

Usage examples:

They obviously think we’re a bunch of crackpots.

adjective

Departing from usual or accepted standards, especially in social or sexual behaviour.

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Deviant behaviour

noun

A deviant person or thing.

Usage examples:

Killers, deviants, and those whose actions are beyond most human comprehension

adjective

Differing from the accepted standard

noun

A person who has abandoned a course of study or who has rejected conventional society to pursue an alternative lifestyle.

Usage examples:

A college dropout

noun

A student who leaves school before finishing the course of instruction

Usage examples:

As a high school dropout he’ll never get a decent job.

adjective

(of a person or their behaviour) unconventional and slightly strange.

Usage examples:

He noted her eccentric appearance

noun

A person of unconventional and slightly strange views or behaviour.

Usage examples:

He's seen as a local eccentric

adjective

Strange or unusual, sometimes in an amusing way

Usage examples:

Eccentric behavior, she was an elderly eccentric who lived with 25 cats., [ u ] although his reputa…

noun

A very unusual and unexpected event or situation.

Usage examples:

The teacher says the accident was a total freak

verb

Behave or cause to behave in a wild and irrational way, typically because of the effects of extreme emotion or drugs.

Usage examples:

He freaked out and smashed the place up

adjective

Extremely unusual or unlikely

Usage examples:

She died in a freak automobile accident., a freak midsummer hailstorm caught us all by surprise., m…

adjective

Single; separate.

Usage examples:

Individual tiny flowers

noun

A single human being as distinct from a group.

Usage examples:

Boat trips for parties and individuals

noun

A single person or thing, esp. when compared to the group or set to which it belongs

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We will remember him as an individual who always tried to make people happy., every company has its…

noun

A person who is independent and self-reliant.

Usage examples:

A rugged individualist driven to succeed

adjective

Relating to or characterized by the habit or principle of being independent and self-reliant.

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Individualist attitudes

noun

A mad or silly person.

Usage examples:

She was working with a bunch of loonies

adjective

Mad or silly.

Usage examples:

Loony drivers

adjective

Foolish or crazy

Usage examples:

He has loony ideas.

noun

An unorthodox or independent-minded person.

Usage examples:

He's the maverick of the fashion scene

adjective

Unorthodox.

Usage examples:

A maverick detective

noun

A person who thinks and acts independently of and differently from others

Usage examples:

She is considered a political maverick.

noun

A person whose behaviour or attitude sets them apart from others in an uncomfortably conspicuous way.

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A motley collection of social misfits

noun

Someone who is not accepted socially by other people because his or her behavior is unusual or strange

Usage examples:

I was a social misfit, the kind of kid no one played with.

noun

A member of a protestant church which dissents from the established church of england.

Usage examples:

Originally a nonconformist, he was later converted to anglo-catholicism

adjective

Relating to nonconformists or their principles and practices.

Usage examples:

Teetotalism was a largely nonconformist movement

noun

A person who does not live and think according to accepted customs and standards

noun

A fruit consisting of a hard or tough shell around an edible kernel.

Usage examples:

He was cracking nuts with his teeth

verb

Butt (someone) with one's head.

Usage examples:

I thought he was going to nut me in the face

abbreviation

(in the uk) national union of teachers.

noun

A strange or eccentric person.

Usage examples:

She was seen as a bit of an oddball

adjective

Strange; bizarre.

Usage examples:

Oddball training methods

noun

A person whose behavior is unusual and strange

noun

A strange or peculiar person or thing.

Usage examples:

She was regarded as a bit of an oddity

noun

Someone or something that is strange and unusual

Usage examples:

As one of the few women in engineering in the 1950s, she was considered an oddity.

verb

Distort or corrupt the original course, meaning, or state of (something).

Usage examples:

He was charged with conspiring to pervert the course of justice

noun

A person whose sexual behaviour is regarded as abnormal and unacceptable.

verb

To change something from its correct use or original purpose

Usage examples:

These journalists are perverting the news., the will of the people is being perverted by their elec…

noun

Another term for weirdo.