QUIRKS Synonyms: 57 Similar and Opposite Words

quirks

noun

plural of quirk

as in tricks

an odd or peculiar habit wearing red shoes every day is just one of her quirks

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Recent Examples of quirks Also in that notebook is the apparent good news about Nick Pivetta playing loss toss yesterday, an explanation for some lineup quirks last night and the transaction that created room for Ray on the roster. — Kevin Acee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Aug. 2026 Now many of the quirks of modern life have made meeting organically in person less likely. — Faith Hill, The Atlantic, 3 Aug. 2026 Workflows are versioned, testable and decoupled from any one model's output quirks, which means the institutional knowledge your teams build in prompts and pipelines travels with you when the execution layer changes. — Luke Norris, Forbes.com, 31 July 2026 To what extent should a hostess accommodate these concerns — or quirks? — Judith Martin, Mercury News, 29 July 2026 Ly emphasized that aspiring creators need to prioritize authenticity, lean into quirks and let the animal set the tone. — Pat Mueller, USA Today, 29 July 2026 Having access to a specific language’s literary quirks is like opening a second toolbox for your own writing. — Literary Hub, 28 July 2026 Dog owners are used to being surprised by their pup’s unexpected quirks, tricks, and behaviors. — Michele Laufik, Martha Stewart, 28 July 2026 The headlong pacing allows nary a breather, though there are enough wry notes, character quirks and offbeat details (remote-control doors, goats, a knife fight on a waterbed) to prevent macho monotony from setting in. — Dennis Harvey, Variety, 26 July 2026

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Noun

Abernathy Greenway Park walk with Trees Atlanta Take a walk through the park with a Trees Atlanta docent, who will teach simple tricks for telling trees apart and share stories about why trees are important and how to protect them.

— Mary Caldwell, AJC.com, 4 Aug. 2026
While there are many ways to preserve flowers, hydrangeas hold up best through drying, and according to florist Joanne Effinger, Garden Director at Bluepoint Hospitality in Easton, Maryland, there are a few tricks to get it right.

— Nicole Letts, Southern Living, 31 July 2026

Definition of tricks

Noun

Getting there defied logic and demanded resilience, traits that have defined this club during a chaotic season.

— Chandler Rome, New York Times, 1 Aug. 2026
The Leadership Blind Spot Of Identity Lag The traits that make a great leader can also set the stage for physical decline.

— Julian Hayes II, Forbes.com, 1 Aug. 2026

Definition of traits

Noun

What the audience witnesses is not a flashback, but rather the mannerisms of a person recounting an experience, the reaction of the person listening, and the distance between the two.

— Zachary Lee, IndieWire, 27 July 2026
Modi’s gestures, pauses and mannerisms have been turned into viral edits that turn his own words into political jokes.

— ABC News, ABC News, 25 July 2026

Definition of mannerisms

Noun

The researchers demonstrated the concept using signals whose characteristics changed over time, including handwriting and object movement at different speeds.

— Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 8 Aug. 2026
These characteristics reduce risk and increase confidence that the business will continue performing after the ownership changes hands.

— Melissa Houston, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2026

Definition of characteristics

Noun

If LRMs can supercharge mathematics research the way AlphaFold did for computational biology, this line of thinking goes, why not embrace them, idiosyncrasies and all, and just verify the results?

— John Pavlus, Quanta Magazine, 31 July 2026
Nolan said that Odysseus’ idiosyncrasies were challenging to adapt.

— Skyler Trepel, PEOPLE, 17 July 2026

Definition of idiosyncrasies

Noun

But unlike the best of Ferrell’s earlier roles, Hawkins’s eccentricities feel like surface-level strangeness, connected to nothing surprising or soulful underneath.

— Kathryn VanArendonk, Vulture, 16 July 2026
And yet, generations of Americans have come here not despite its eccentricities—and downright aversion to good taste—but because of them, which serves as a reminder that originality, even at its most excessive, never really goes out of style.

— Air Mail, Air Mail, 4 July 2026

Definition of eccentricities

Noun

The message is to distinguish between deliberate consistency and outdated, sticky habits.

— Nell Derick Debevoise Dewey, Forbes.com, 6 Aug. 2026
But at any age, get a checkup for symptoms such as blood in stool or rectal bleeding; changes in bowel habits such as diarrhea, constipation or narrowing of stool that lasts more than a few days; unintended weight loss; and cramps or abdominal pain.

— ABC News, ABC News, 6 Aug. 2026

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