All 6 Uses of
eccentric
in
Main Street, by Sinclair Lewis
- And they think you were eccentric in furnishing this room—they think the broad couch and that Japanese dingus are absurd.†
Chpt 8
- And seeing Guy only as an eccentric fogy.†
Chpt 14
- They surveyed the small eccentric bungalows with pergolas, the houses of pebbledash and tapestry brick with sleeping-porches above sun-parlors, and one vast incredible chateau fronting the Lake of the Isles.†
Chpt 17
- Would she some day so despise herself and her neighbors that she too would walk Main Street an old skinny eccentric woman in a mangy cat's-fur?†
Chpt 27
- I'd heard he was eccentric, but really, I found him quite intelligent.†
Chpt 29
- But he looked as though he were doing this eccentric thing to amuse himself.
Chpt 29 *eccentric = unconventional or strange
Definitions:
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(1)
(eccentric) unconventional or strange; or a person with such traits -- often in a way that seems interesting or harmless
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
Much more rarely, in technical usage, eccentric can mean "not concentric".