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unusual person

/ˈʌnˌjuʒ(əw)əl ˌpʌrsn/
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Other forms: unusual persons

Definitions of unusual person
  1. noun
    a person who is unusual
    synonyms: anomaly
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    types:
    anachronism
    a person who seems to be displaced in time; who belongs to another age
    aberrant
    one whose behavior departs substantially from the norm of a group
    albino
    a person with congenital albinism: white hair and milky skin; eyes are usually pink
    automaton, zombi, zombie
    someone who acts or responds in a mechanical or apathetic way
    eccentric, eccentric person, flake, geek, oddball
    a person with an unusual or odd personality
    behemoth, colossus, giant, goliath, monster
    someone or something that is abnormally large and powerful
    Jekyll and Hyde
    someone with two personalities - one good and one evil
    kook, odd fellow, odd fish, odd man out, queer bird, queer duck
    someone regarded as eccentric or crazy and standing out from a group
    misfit
    someone unable to adapt to his or her circumstances
    rara avis, rare bird
    a rare or unique person
    transexual, transsexual
    a person who has undergone a sex change operation
    ugly duckling
    an ugly or unpromising child who grows into a beautiful or worthy person
    anthropoid
    person who resembles a nonhuman primate
    crackpot, crank, fruitcake, nut, nut case, screwball
    a whimsically eccentric person
    dork, jerk
    a dull stupid fatuous person
    nutter, wacko, whacko
    a person who is regarded as eccentric or mad
    addle-head, addlehead, birdbrain, loon
    a person with confused ideas; incapable of serious thought
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