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Definition of Unusual
Unusual

Not usual; uncommon; rare; as, an unusual season; a person of unusual grace or erudition.

Related Definitions:
An, As, Erudition, Grace, Not, Of, Or, Person, Rare, Season, Uncommon, Unusual, Usual


Unusual Quotations

If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.
Jim Rohn

The United States is unusual among the industrial democracies in the rigidity of the system of ideological control - "indoctrination," we might say - exercised through the mass media.
Noam Chomsky

England is better only because I stand out there as 'unusual'.
Emo Philips

No, but way before that, I've been doing little dances in movies for years. Yeah, that was an amazing chance. You know, at my age to be able to do a music dance video, very unusual.
Christopher Walken

Now, most dentist's chairs go up and down, don't they? The one I was in went back and forwards. I thought 'This is unusual'. And the dentist said to me 'Mr Vine, get out of the filing cabinet.
Tim Vine

It's not so unusual to run out of someone else's currency.
Jeffrey Sachs

As children we recognized that we belonged to an unusual, even exceptional, family, but the effect was different on each of us.
David Rockefeller

I was the only Black person on the set. It was unusual for me to be in a circumstance in which every move I made was tantamount to representation of 18 million people.
Sidney Poitier

My mother told me two things constantly. One was to be a lady and the other was to be independent, and the law was something most unusual for those times because for most girls growing up in the '40s, the most important degree was not your B.A. but your M.R.S.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Hollywood didn't know if I was an actor or a nut or if I was this crazy character I was playing. I had developed an image of being a little bit unusual, different and wild.
Nicolas Cage

Unusual Translations

unusual in Dutch is ongewoon, ongebruikelijk
unusual in French is insolite, inhabituel
unusual in Italian is strano, inconsueto
unusual in Latin is novus, insolita
unusual in Portuguese is incomun
unusual in Spanish is insolito, raro
unusual in Swedish is ovanlig, osedvanlig


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