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oddball

English

Etymology

Compound of odd +? ball. Attested since the 1940s, with the adjective appearing earlier than the noun.

Pronunciation

  • (US) IPA(key): /???d?b?l/

Noun

oddball (plural oddballs)

  1. An eccentric or unusual person.
  2. (neuroscience) A deviant stimulus that appears among repetitive stimuli during an experiment, to trigger an event-related potential in the participant.

Synonyms

  • (eccentric or unusual person): kook, odd duck, strange fish, queer fish, weirdo; see also Thesaurus:strange person

Translations

Adjective

oddball (not comparable)

  1. Exotic, not mainstream.

Translations

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unnatural

English

Etymology

From Middle English unnatural, unnaturel, equivalent to un- +? natural.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?n?næt?????l/
  • Hyphenation: un?nat?u?ral

Adjective

unnatural (comparative more unnatural, superlative most unnatural)

  1. Not natural.
  2. Not occurring in nature, the environment or atmosphere
  3. Going against nature; perverse.

Antonyms

  • natural

Derived terms

  • unnaturally
  • unnaturalness

Translations

Anagrams

  • lunarnaut

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