Eccentric/dissimilar

1. aberrant – a) departing from the right, normal or usual course; b) deviating from the ordinary or normal type; c) exceptional, abnormal, divergent, unusual

2. anomalous – a) deviating from or inconsistent with the common order, form or rule; irregular, abnormal b) not fitting into a common or familiar type, classification or pattern; unusual; c) incongruous or inconsistent

3. esoteric – a) understood by or meant for only a select few who have special knowledge or interest; recondite; b) private, secret, confidential; c) intended to be revealed only to initiates of a group

4. iconoclast – a) a breaker or destroyer of images, esp. those that set up for religious veneration; b) a person who attacks cherished beliefs, traditional institutions; c) nonconformist, rebel, dissenter, radical

5. maverick – a) a lone dissenter, as an intellectual, artist or politician, who takes an independent stand apart from his or her associates; b) nonconformist, independent, loner

6. anachronism – a) something or someone that is not in correct chronological time; b) an error in chronology in which a person, object or event is assigned a date or period other than the correct one

7. discrete – a) apart or detached from others; separate; distinct; b) characterized by or consisting of distinct or individual parts

8. idiosyncratic – a) peculiar or non-standard in one’s physical or mental constitution; b) characterized by something which is very particular to a specific individual

9. quirky – having quirks, peculiarity of actions, behavior or personality; b) characterized by cleverness or wittiness; a quip

FUNNY

1. chortle – a) to chuckle gleefully; b) to express with a gleeful chuckle, a snort (a little like the sound a pig makes)

2. flippant – a) frivolously disrespectful, shallow or lacking in seriousness; b) characterized by levity; c) saucy, impertinent, impudent

3. levity – a) lightness of mind, character or behavior, lack of appropriate seriousness or earnestness; b) fickleness, frivolity, flippancy, giddiness

4. riposte – a) a quick, sharp return in speech or action; b) counterstroke, reply or retaliation; c)

5. droll – a) amusing in an odd way; whimsically humorous; waggish; b) a droll person, jester, wag; c) diverting, odd, witty

6. gibe – a) to utter mocking or scoffing words, jeer; b) to taunt, to deride; c) a taunting or sarcastic remark; d) mock, sneer, gird, ridicule, twit, fleer, sneer, scoff, jeer

7. ludicrous – a) causing laughter because of absurdity, provoking or deserving derision, ridiculous, laughable, farcical

8. simper – a) to smile in a silly, self-conscious way; b) smirk, snigger, snicker

9. facetious – a) not meant to be taken seriously or literally; b) amusing, humorous; c) lacking serious intent, concerning something nonessential, amusing or frivolous

10. jocular – giving to, characterized by joking or jesting, waggish; facetious, jovial

11. raillery – a) good-humored ridicule, banter; b) jesting, joking, badinage, chaff, pleasantry

12. jocose – a) giving to or characterized by joking or jesting; humorous; b) playful, facetious, waggish, funny, droll, comical, sportive, merry

SORROW

1. disconsolate – a) without consolation or solace, hopelessly unhappy, inconsolable; b) characterized by o causing dejection, cheerless, gloomy; c) heartbroken, dejected, sad, melancholy, sorrowful, miserable, desolate

2. bereaved – a) greatly saddened at being deprive by death of a loved one; b) deprived or made desolate, esp. by death

3. doleful – a) sorrowful, mournful, melancholy; b)

4. elegiac – a) expressing sorrow or lamentation, as an elegy (type of poem)

5. lugubrious – a) mournful, dismal or gloomy, esp. in an affected, exaggerated or unrelieved manner; b) sorrowful, melancholy

6. lachrymose – a) suggestive of or tending to cause tears; mournful; b) given to shedding tears readily; c) tearful

7. plaintive -

8. forlorn – a) desolate or dreary; b) unhappy or miserable, as in feeling, condition, or appearance; c) expressing of hopelessness, despairing; d) bereft, destitute; e) pitiful, pitiable, helpless, woebegone, comfortless, alone, lost, solitary, desolate, deprived

9. melancholy – a) gloomy state of mind, esp. when habitual or prolonged, depression; b) sober thoughtfulness, pensiveness; c) affected with, characterized by or showing melancholy, mournful, depressed; d) sadness, dejection, despondency, seriousness, gloomy, despondent, blue, dispirited, sorrowful, dismal, doleful, glum, downcast

10. threnody – a) poem, speech or song of lamentation, esp. for the dead, dirge, funeral song

11. dolor – a) sorrow, grief

12. lament – a) to feel or express sorrow or regret for; b) to mourn for or over; c) to feel, show, express grief, sorrow or regret; d) a formal expression of sorrow or mourning; e) bewail, bemoan, depore, grieve, weep, monody, threnody

13. morose – a) gloomily or sullenly ill-humored, as a person or mood; b) characterized by or expressing gloom; c) moody, sour, sulky, surly

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