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Meaning of विलक्षण in English

  • Old; antique.
  • Odd; fantastic; fanciful; grotesque; ludicrous.
  • A buffoon or merry-andrew; one that practices odd gesticulations; the Fool of the old play.
  • An odd imagery, device, or tracery; a fantastic figure.
  • A grotesque trick; a piece of buffoonery; a caper.
  • A grotesque representation.
  • An antimask.
  • To make appear like a buffoon.
  • To perform antics.
  • Deviating or departing from the center, or from the line of a circle; as, an eccentric or elliptical orbit; pertaining to deviation from the center or from true circular motion.
  • Not having the same center; -- said of circles, ellipses, spheres, etc., which, though coinciding, either in whole or in part, as to area or volume, have not the same center; -- opposed to concentric.
  • Pertaining to an eccentric; as, the eccentric rod in a steam engine.
  • Not coincident as to motive or end.
  • Deviating from stated methods, usual practice, or established forms or laws; deviating from an appointed sphere or way; departing from the usual course; irregular; anomalous; odd; as, eccentric conduct.
  • A circle not having the same center as another contained in some measure within the first.
  • One who, or that which, deviates from regularity; an anomalous or irregular person or thing.
  • In the Ptolemaic system, the supposed circular orbit of a planet about the earth, but with the earth not in its center.
  • A circle described about the center of an elliptical orbit, with half the major axis for radius.
  • A disk or wheel so arranged upon a shaft that the center of the wheel and that of the shaft do not coincide. It is used for operating valves in steam engines, and for other purposes. The motion derived is precisely that of a crank having the same throw.
  • Fanciful; unreal; whimsical; capricious; fantastic.
  • of Prodigy
  • Of the nature of a prodigy; marvelous; wonderful; portentous.
  • Extraordinary in bulk, extent, quantity, or degree; very great; vast; huge; immense; as, a prodigious mountain; a prodigious creature; a prodigious blunder.
  • Like Don Quixote; romantic to extravagance; absurdly chivalric; apt to be deluded.
  • Separate or apart from others; single; distinct.
  • Engaged in by only one on a side; single.
  • Existing by itself; single; individual.
  • Each; individual; as, to convey several parcels of land, all and singular.
  • Denoting one person or thing; as, the singular number; -- opposed to dual and plural.
  • Standing by itself; out of the ordinary course; unusual; uncommon; strange; as, a singular phenomenon.
  • Distinguished as existing in a very high degree; rarely equaled; eminent; extraordinary; exceptional; as, a man of singular gravity or attainments.
  • Departing from general usage or expectations; odd; whimsical; -- often implying disapproval or consure.
  • Being alone; belonging to, or being, that of which there is but one; unique.
  • An individual instance; a particular.
  • The singular number, or the number denoting one person or thing; a word in the singular number.
  • Having the power of perceiving; percipient.
  • Capable of being drawn aside or distracted.
  • See Eccentric.
  • Of, relating to, or characterized by, exanthema; efflorescent; as, an exanthematous eruption.
  • To exhaust or wear out.
  • Alt. of Excentrical
  • Same as Eccentric, Eccentrical.
  • One-sided; having the normally central portion not in the true center.
  • Scanty; small; slender; diminutive.
  • See Ecstatic, a.
  • In an extraordinary manner or degree.
  • of Extraordinary
  • Beyond or out of the common order or method; not usual, customary, regular, or ordinary; as, extraordinary evils; extraordinary remedies.
  • Exceeding the common degree, measure. or condition; hence, remarkable; uncommon; rare; wonderful; as, extraordinary talents or grandeur.
  • Employed or sent upon an unusual or special service; as, an ambassador extraordinary.
  • That which is extraordinary; -- used especially in the plural; as, extraordinaries excepted, there is nothing to prevent success.
  • Extrorse.
  • Capable of being cast off in the form of exuviae.
  • Existing only in imagination; fanciful; imaginary; not real; chimerical.
  • Having the nature of a phantom; unreal.
  • Indulging the vagaries of imagination; whimsical; full of absurd fancies; capricious; as, fantastic minds; a fantastic mistress.
  • Resembling fantasies in irregularity, caprice, or eccentricity; irregular; oddly shaped; grotesque.
  • A person given to fantastic dress, manners, etc.; an eccentric person; a fop.
  • Consisting or made of meal or flour; as, a farinaceous diet.
  • Yielding farina or flour; as, ffarinaceous seeds.
  • Like meal; mealy; pertainiing to meal; as, a farinaceous taste, smell, or appearance.
  • Like a fiend; diabolically wicked or cruel; infernal; malignant; devilish; hellish.
  • Covered with, made of, or resembling, a fleece.
  • See Enchant.
  • Full of knots; knotted; having many knots; as, knotty timber; a knotty rope.
  • Hard; rugged; as, a knotty head.
  • Difficult; intricate; perplexed.
  • of Lath
  • The act or process of covering with laths; laths, collectively; a covering of laths.
  • Like a quack; boasting; characterized by quackery.
  • Prudent; wise; hence, crafty; artful; wily.
  • Characterized by ingenuity or art; finely fashioned; skillfully wrought; elegant; graceful; nice; neat.
  • Curious and fanciful; affected; odd; whimsical; antique; archaic; singular; unusual; as, quaint architecture; a quaint expression.
  • In a quaint manner.
  • Capable of being quenched.
  • Of or pertaining to plants of the natural order Solanaceae, of which the nightshade (Solanum) is the type. The order includes also the tobacco, ground cherry, tomato, eggplant, red pepper, and many more.
  • Astonishing; wonderful; amazing; especially, astonishing in magnitude or elevation; as, a stupendous pile.

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