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US
/ənˈjuˌʒuəɫ, ənˈjuʒwəɫ/
]
[ UK /ʌnjˈuːʒuːəl/ ]
[ UK /ʌnjˈuːʒuːəl/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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not commonly encountered
two-career families are no longer unusual -
being definitely out of the ordinary and unexpected; slightly odd or even a bit weird
what a strange sense of humor she has
a strange exaltation that was indefinable
a strange fantastical mind -
not usual or common or ordinary
a man of unusual ability
a scene of unusual beauty
an unusual meteorite
cruel and unusual punishment
How To Use unusual In A Sentence
- Other unusual finds include a couple of chinchillas and 16 dogs that had been left in the Louisiana State University Medical Center, Bafalis says.
- An unusual colour for me, since my dad had brown eyes and my mum had greeny blue.
- Having worked himself into this ridiculous kind of phrensy, which lasted, perhaps, from twenty to thirty seconds, he suddenly discontinued it, and suffered his features to relax into their natural form; but the motion of his head seemed to have so stupified him, as indeed it well might, that there remained an unusual vacancy and a drowsy stare upon his countenance for some time afterward. Three Voyages for the Discovery of a Northwest Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and Narrative of an Attempt to Reach the North Pole, Volume 1
- Clearly, this is a river bank and it is not unusual to see rats on a river bank.
- His range of effects is unusually eloquent; there is something of the monoprint to them, as well as elements of the Surrealist techniques of decalcomania and frottage.
- It is not unusual to find substances in illegal drugs that are much more harmful than the drugs themselves.
- Radiographs of the fingertips of rock climbers, for example, show unusual bony spurs and thickened phalanges.
- To see a funeral car hit a pub is something very unusual. The Sun
- These species are under an unusual selection regime in that their hosts are often isogenic and planted in monoculture.
- The prominent winds and brass, and unusual sonorities like the harsh Chinese cymbals that convey Hippolyt's disgust at Phaedra's advances, increase the piece's hard-edge quality. Divided Inside, in Theme and Structure