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 Like so many quirks of British culture, Highlands tourism owes a debt to the royals. — Hayley Maitland, Vogue, 31 Aug. 2026 The English Understand Wool is skillful, funny, and exposes, through twists and turns, the quirks and peculiarities of the privileged, of celebrity, and the publishing world. — Literary Hub, 27 Aug. 2026 The glasses still have some quirks to work out, but the potential here is massive. — Scott Kramer, Forbes.com, 23 Aug. 2026 The center contributes to global research on gibbons The gibbons are full of personality and individual quirks, and Skollar knows them well after decades at the center. — Jaimie Ding, Fortune, 23 Aug. 2026 So the goal, in many ways, is a continuation, just mixed with some new quirks. — Noah White, Miami Herald, 20 Aug. 2026 The film leans on the cafe’s constant churn of strangers coming and going to draw out each character’s voice, temperament and quirks at a brisk clip. — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 19 Aug. 2026 Despite being trained on the glorious quirks of humankind’s creative canon, the models push our ersatz artistic output into a bland, muddled middle ground. — Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 19 Aug. 2026 Cristin Milioti was in her sweet spot as lovable mess Hazel, who left college a decade ago to marry tech titan Byron Gogol (Billy Magnussen), a control-freak inventor whose toxic quirks evoke many real-world counterparts. — Judy Berman, Time, 11 Aug. 2026

Recent Examples of Synonyms for quirks

Noun

Champions League hat-tricks, 25-yarders and nutmegs — some debuts are the stuff of dreams.

— Amitai Winehouse, New York Times, 9 Sep. 2026
Boston Dynamics was once best known for its viral videos of robots doing cool tricks, but that space has been taken over by Chinese humanoids and their flashy dance moves.

— J.D. Capelouto, semafor.com, 9 Sep. 2026

Definition of tricks

Noun

His ability to square the ball up and not chase out of the strike zone are probably his best traits.

— Jim Bowden, New York Times, 4 Sep. 2026
The offense showed a lot of good traits in a small sample size, but still has strides to make as the Tigers open up the playbook.

— PJ Green September 4, Kansas City Star, 4 Sep. 2026

Definition of traits

Noun

Her mannerisms, comedy, music, references and cultural touchstones were influenced by the Black woman playing her.

— Taijuan Moorman, USA Today, 3 Sep. 2026
In a sprightly performance rife with oddball mannerisms, Gnecco gives Borges equal parts impish wisdom, earthy vulgarity and childlike wonder, rarely letting a moment’s silence go unfilled with eager chatter.

— Guy Lodge, Variety, 29 Aug. 2026

Definition of mannerisms

Noun

Historically, the Grand Sport has borrowed its design characteristics from the range-topping Z06, and that’s no different this time around.

— Jerry Perez, The Drive, 3 Sep. 2026
This potentially allows the same aircraft platform to undertake different types of strike missions while carrying weapons configured for different target characteristics.

— Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 3 Sep. 2026

Definition of characteristics

Noun

There’s no better way to quickly learn a person’s idiosyncrasies than living with them.

— Maddie Lee, Los Angeles Times, 25 Aug. 2026
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

Definition of idiosyncrasies

Noun

Everyone knows the outdated and offensive characterization of a cat lady — a stereotype conjuring images of solitude, eccentricities and probably cartons of ice cream.

— Todd Martens, Los Angeles Times, 9 Sep. 2026
But what’s especially interesting is the intensity with which Chad Powers approaches Gerry’s fury and eccentricities.

— Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 3 Sep. 2026

Definition of eccentricities

Noun

The English Understand Wool is skillful, funny, and exposes, through twists and turns, the quirks and peculiarities of the privileged, of celebrity, and the publishing world.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 27 Aug. 2026
Our readers from all around the world may not be familiar with the peculiarities of British politics or your political platform.

— Richard Hall, Time, 12 Aug. 2026

Definition of peculiarities

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