All 5 Uses of
eccentric
in
Snow Falling on Cedars
- Settlers arrived--mostly wayward souls and eccentrics who had meandered off the Oregon Trail.
Chpt 1 *eccentrics = unconventional or strange people
- It was an eccentric, rainy, wind-beaten sea village, downtrodden and mildewed, the boards of its buildings bleached and weathered, their drainpipes rusted a dull orange.†
Chpt 1
- She sipped her tea, then changed the subject: the families up and down South Beach, she said, were thought of by folks in Amity Harbor as self-styled aristocrats and malcontents, seclusion seekers and eccentrics—Ishmael's family included.†
Chpt 8eccentrics = people who are strange or unconventional
- It traveled in its own eccentric orbit.†
Chpt 25
- The jurors had noted how his left eye floated and how the light winked against its dull, glassy surface as it orbited eccentrically in its socket.†
Chpt 29
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".