unconventional, peculiar, or odd in behaviour or appearance.
My neighbour is an eccentric inventor who builds machines from junk.
She wore an eccentric hat with feathers and bells to the party.
✦ From Late Latin eccentricus (“eccentric, wandering”), from Ancient Greek ἐκκέντρος (ekkeńtros, “out of the center”), from ἐκ- (ek-, “out”) + κέντρον (ké́ntron, “center, sharp point”).
a person who behaves in a strange or unusual way.
The village eccentric collects old bottles and arranges them by color.
She's the local eccentric who talks to her plants every morning.
✦ From Late Latin eccentricus (“eccentric, wandering”), from Ancient Greek ἐκκέντρος (ekkeńtros, “out of the center”), from ἐκ- (ek-, “out”) + κέντρον (ké́ntron, “center, sharp point”). The noun sense derives from the adjective.
