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Synonyms & Antonyms of queer
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- eating all of that deep-fried food would make most people feel a little queer
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- one competitor had a queer way of running that attracted a lot of attention from the spectators
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- bizarre,
- bizarro,
- cranky,
- crazy,
- curious,
- eccentric,
- erratic,
- far-out,
- funky,
- funny,
- kinky,
- kooky
- (also kookie),
- odd,
- off-kilter,
- off-the-wall,
- offbeat,
- out-of-the-way,
- outlandish,
- outré,
- peculiar,
- quaint,
- queerish,
- quirky,
- remarkable,
- rum
- [chiefly British],
- screwy,
- spaced-out,
- strange,
- wacky
- (also whacky),
- way-out,
- weird,
- weirdo,
- wild
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- extraordinary,
- fantastic
- (also fantastical),
- freak,
- freakish,
- freaky,
- phantasmagoric
- (or phantasmagorical),
- phenomenal
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- a lot of queer things started happening almost from the day that we moved into the house
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- he's a little queer on the subject of astronomy; if you get him going, he'll talk for hours
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- queer money that was the work of a master forger
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- bogus,
- counterfeit,
- fake,
- false,
- forged,
- inauthentic,
- phony
- (also phoney),
- sham,
- snide,
- spurious,
- unauthentic
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- queer business practices that bear some looking into
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- debatable,
- disputable,
- dodgy
- [chiefly British],
- doubtable,
- doubtful,
- dubious,
- dubitable,
- equivocal,
- fishy,
- problematic
- (also problematical),
- questionable,
- shady,
- shaky,
- suspect,
- suspicious
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queer
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“Queer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/queer. Accessed 13 Aug. 2022.
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The first known use of queer was circa 1513
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