eccentrics

noun

plural of eccentric
as in nuts
a person of odd or whimsical habits an eccentric who designed his house to look like a Scottish castle

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Recent Examples of eccentrics Dippold has populated the show with lovable eccentrics played by great character actors—Dale Dickey, Jeff Hiller, Tim Baltz. — Rachel Syme, New Yorker, 18 June 2026 Inbred eccentrics and bumbling detectives have populated the seaside villages of Bruno Dumont’s absurdist comedies. — Jessica Kiang, Variety, 16 June 2026 But the film is really a tour of a pre-gentrified East Village, full of low-key bars and cafes, run-down apartments, eccentrics and struggling artists. — Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 12 June 2026 Once a stronghold of canneries and lumber mills, the town has numerous tumbledown Victorians that have long been havens for artists, brewers, and various eccentrics—along with fans of The Goonies, who make pilgrimages to see where the seminal movie was shot. — David Amsden, Travel + Leisure, 10 June 2026 But what the New Yorker writer left behind is some of the finest prose of the 20th century, focusing primarily on the eccentrics, scalawags, seamen, and other denizens of New York’s dank corners. — Air Mail, 2 May 2026 The town’s overflowing with charming Midwest eccentrics, including a cocky mayor (Henry Winkler) and a welcoming barkeep (Lena Headey). — Randy Myers, Mercury News, 15 Apr. 2026 Those crazy, diverse individuals, that tribe of oddballs and eccentrics, dreamers, and gamblers who make up this business. — Natalia Senanayake, PEOPLE, 14 Apr. 2026 Catherine O’Hara portrayed ridiculous eccentrics with equal parts hilarity and humanity. — The Week Us, TheWeek, 10 Feb. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for eccentrics
  1. nuts
  2. characters
  3. oddballs
  4. originals
  5. cranks
  6. weirdos
  7. mavericks
  8. kooks
Noun
  • Add in the textural blend of crunch from the nuts and chewy from the pineapple, and this has quickly become my go-to midday desk snack.
    — Alaina Chou, Bon Appetit Magazine, 1 Aug. 2026
  • Nearly half of the country’s vegetables and more than three-quarters of its fruits and nuts come from California, according to the state.
    — Dakota Smith, Los Angeles Times, 30 July 2026
Definition of nuts
Noun
  • There are so many stories built around not only Master Chief and Cortana, who are the classic characters, but also so many other areas to explore.
    — Destiny Jackson, Deadline, 30 July 2026
  • Through his characters’ exploits, Ellis depicts two LAs—the teenage universe of mall food courts, movie theaters, and arcades, and the power lunch spots that underscore their precociousness.
    — Hannah Jackson, Vogue, 30 July 2026
Definition of characters
Noun
  • The Ramones stood on stage not as rock gods or unattainable heroes, but as oddballs, misfits, and fellow outcasts in torn jeans.
    — Debby Wolfinsohn, Entertainment Weekly, 7 July 2026
  • The Wylkes Society’s members include many of the amiable oddballs Miles has met around town.
    — Heller McAlpin, Christian Science Monitor, 7 July 2026
Definition of oddballs
Noun
  • Save secure digital copies of important travel documents in case the originals are lost or stolen.
    — Ashley Lynch, Kansas City Star, 3 Aug. 2026
  • The service announced a huge slate of originals earlier this year, though Job Trafficking had not be unveiled at that time.
    — Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 2 Aug. 2026
Definition of originals
Noun
  • Indeed, cranks and conspiracists on the American and British hard right now exist in happy symbiosis.
    — Helen Lewis, The Atlantic, 26 July 2026
  • The newer Schnierle hardware with which Wellhouse is working in the iCamper cranks this adjustability up considerably.
    — New Atlas, New Atlas, 24 July 2026
Definition of cranks
Noun
  • Always Sunny has long boasted a fine roster of supporting weirdos orbiting the crew’s Paddy’s Pub HQ.
    — Dennis Perkins, Entertainment Weekly, 28 July 2026
  • The Kmatz-Shaffer combo appeals to me the most, however, as someone who prefers his bullpen stocked with weirdos and freaky arm angles.
    — Grant Brisbee, New York Times, 21 July 2026
Definition of weirdos
Noun
  • Carl Anka Trent Alexander-Arnold’s England career is a fascinating case study in why team sports can prefer the orthodox to the mavericks.
    — The Athletic UK Staff, New York Times, 13 May 2026
  • The confluence at Black Mountain of émigré artists like Josef and Anni Albers with homegrown mavericks like John Cage and Buckminster Fuller (who constructed his first geodesic dome there) marked an early flowering of this mode of learning, which was still in fine health decades later.
    — Christopher Benfey, The New York Review of Books, 19 Apr. 2026
Definition of mavericks
Noun
  • O’Hara worked consistently across her 50-year career in both film and television, best known for playing beloved kooks and amiable wackos, though her range was boundless.
    — Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 30 Jan. 2026
  • What so many of these talking heads have in common—legitimate experts, well-meaning journalists, and kooks alike—is how costly their recommendations are.
    — CBS News, CBS News, 3 Jan. 2026
Definition of kooks

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