Definition of Peculiar

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Peculiar

One's own; belonging solely or especially to an individual; not possessed by others; of private, personal, or characteristic possession and use; not owned in common or in participation.

Particular; individual; special; appropriate.

Unusual; singular; rare; strange; as, the sky had a peculiarappearance.

That which is peculiar; a sole or exclusive property; a prerogative; a characteristic.

A particular parish or church which is exempt from the jurisdiction of the ordinary.

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Peculiar Quotations

Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say for one that I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem.
Abraham Lincoln

I attribute the little I know to my not having been ashamed to ask for information, and to my rule of conversing with all descriptions of men on those topics that form their own peculiar professions and pursuits.
John Locke

Hatred is something peculiar. You will always find it strongest and most violent where there is the lowest degree of culture.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Psychoanalysis. Almost went three times - almost. Then I decided what was peculiar about me was probably what made me successful. I've seen some very talented actors go into analysis and really lose it.
Bette Davis

The world is put back by the death of every one who has to sacrifice the development of his or her peculiar gifts to conventionality.
Florence Nightingale

I live and love in God's peculiar light.
Michelangelo

It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others and to forget his own.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

I think there's something peculiar about me that I haven't died. It doesn't make sense but I refuse to die.
Judy Garland

Fidelity - a virtue peculiar to those who are about to be betrayed.
Ambrose Bierce

Every individual acts and suffers in accordance with his peculiar teleology, which has all the inevitability of fate, so long as he does not understand it.
Alfred Adler

Peculiar Translations

peculiar in Afrikaans is eienaardig
peculiar in Dutch is gek, raar, vreemd, eigenaardig
peculiar in Finnish is kummallinen
peculiar in Italian is estroso, caratteristico
peculiar in Latin is specialissimus, proprius
peculiar in Swedish is egendomlig, besynnerlig

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