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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

almost unheard-of, atypical, bizarre, breakaway, curious, different, eccentric, exceptional, extraordinary, extremely, freakish, infrequent, novel, odd, oddball, offbeat, original, outlandish, peculiar, quaint, queer, rare, rarely, recherche, remarkable, scarce, seldom met with, seldom seen, singular, slow, sparse, strange, sui generis, uncommon, uncommonly, unconventional, uncustomary, undreamed-of, unexpected, unfamiliar, unfrequent, unheard-of, unimaginable, unique, unordinary, unorthodox, unprecedented, unthinkable, unthought-of, untypical, unusually, unwonted

Dictionary Results for unusual:

1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)

unusual
    adj 1: not usual or common or ordinary; "a scene of unusual
           beauty"; "a man of unusual ability"; "cruel and unusual
           punishment"; "an unusual meteorite" [ant: usual]
    2: being definitely out of the ordinary and unexpected; slightly
       odd or even a bit weird; "a strange exaltation that was
       indefinable"; "a strange fantastical mind"; "what a strange
       sense of humor she has" [syn: strange, unusual] [ant:
       familiar]
    3: not commonly encountered; "two-career families are no longer
       unusual"

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Unusual \Un*u"su*al\, a.
   Not usual; uncommon; rare; as, an unusual season; a person of
   unusual grace or erudition. -- Un*u"su*al*ly, adv. --
   Un*u"su*al*ness, n.
   [1913 Webster]

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