Word Meanings - QUEERISH - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Rather queer; somewhat singular.

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• RATHER
  Prior; earlier; former. Now no man dwelleth at the rather town. Sir J. Mandeville.
• QUEERISH
  Rather queer; somewhat singular.
• SINGULAR
  Existing by itself; single; individual. The idea which represents one . . . determinate thing, is called a singular idea, whether simple, complex, or compound. I. Watts. (more info) 1. Separate or apart from others; single; distinct. Bacon. And
• SOMEWHAT
  1. More or less; a certain quantity or degree; a part, more or less; something. These salts have somewhat of a nitrous taste. Grew. Somewhat of his good sense will suffer, in this transfusion, and much of the beauty of his thoughts will be lost.
• QUEERNESS
  The quality or state of being queer.
• SINGULARITY
  1. The quality or state of being singular; some character or quality of a thing by which it is distinguished from all, or from most, others; peculiarity. Pliny addeth this singularity to that soil, that the second year the very falling down of
• QUEER
  oblique, athwart , OHG. twer, twerh, dwerah; akin to D. dvars, AS, þweorh thwart, bent, twisted, Icel. þverr thwart, transverse, Goth. þwaìrhs angry, and perh. to L. 1. At variance with what is usual or normal; differing in some odd way from
• QUEERLY
  In a queer or odd manner.
• SINGULARLY
  1. In a singular manner; in a manner, or to a degree, not common to others; extraordinarily; as, to be singularly exact in one's statements; singularly considerate of others. "Singularly handsome." Milman. 2. Strangely; oddly; as, to
• SINGULARIST
  One who affects singularity. A clownish singularist, or nonconformist to ordinary usage. Borrow.
• SINGULARIZE
  To make singular or single; to distinguish.
• PIQUEERER
  See PICKEERER
• PIQUEER
  See PICKEER