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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

UNU'SUAL, a. s as z. Not usual; not common; rare; as an unusual season; a person of unusual graces or erudition.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: not usual or common or ordinary; "a scene of unusual beauty"; "a man of unusual ability"; "cruel and unusual punishment"; "an unusual meteorite" [ant: usual]
2: being definitely out of the ordinary and unexpected; slightly odd or even a bit weird; "a strange exaltation that was indefinable"; "a strange fantastical mind"; "what a strange sense of humor she has" [syn: strange, unusual] [ant: familiar]
3: not commonly encountered; "two-career families are no longer unusual"

Merriam Webster's

adjective Date: 1579 not usual ; uncommon, rare • unusually adverb • unusualness noun

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. 1 not usual. 2 exceptional, remarkable. Derivatives: unusually adv. unusualness n.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Unusual Un*u"su*al, a. Not usual; uncommon; rare; as, an unusual season; a person of unusual grace or erudition. -- Un*u"su*al*ly, adv. -- Un*u"su*al*ness, n.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English. 1. If something is unusual, it does not happen very often or you do not see it or hear it very often. They have replanted many areas with rare and unusual plants... To be appreciated as a parent is quite unusual. ADJ 2. If you describe someone as unusual, you think that they are interesting and different from other people. He was an unusual man with great business talents. ADJ

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a. Uncommon, rare, unwonted, singular, remarkable, strange, curious, extraordinary, odd, queer, out of the way.

Moby Thesaurus

almost unheard-of, atypical, bizarre, breakaway, curious, different, eccentric, exceptional, extraordinary, extremely, freakish, infrequent, novel, odd, oddball, offbeat, original, outlandish, peculiar, quaint, queer, rare, rarely, recherche, remarkable, scarce, seldom met with, seldom seen, singular, slow, sparse, strange, sui generis, uncommon, uncommonly, unconventional, uncustomary, undreamed-of, unexpected, unfamiliar, unfrequent, unheard-of, unimaginable, unique, unordinary, unorthodox, unprecedented, unthinkable, unthought-of, untypical, unusually, unwonted