QUIRKY Synonyms: 107 Similar and Opposite Words

quirky

adjective

ˈkwər-kē

Definition of quirky

as in bizarre

different from the ordinary in a way that causes curiosity or suspicion the waitress styles her hair in a quirky way that always gets her remembered by customers

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Recent Examples of quirky As the tiny village fell into disrepair and the locals forgot about the gas-station man and his quirky hobby, stories of hauntings and spooky auras became commonplace. — Staff Report, Hartford Courant, 22 Oct. 2026 Tom Skerritt, the rough-hewn actor who sparkled amid ensembles in M*A*S*H, Alien and Top Gun before starring as small-town sheriff Jimmy Brock on the quirky 1990s series Picket Fences, has died. — Chris Koseluk, HollywoodReporter, 22 Oct. 2026 With its orange boxes and quirky prints, Hermès could be seen as whimsical, but it was usually associated with uptight parents and grandparents. — Marisa Meltzer, Vanity Fair, 19 Oct. 2026 Under consideration are events hosted with local venues, like the Ridgefield Playhouse, and gallery shows with quirky concepts such as record covers featuring people wearing space helmets. — Dina Cheney, Washington Post, 17 Oct. 2026 See All Example Sentences for quirky

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Adjective

The cookie shops have a rotating menu of cookies with elaborate toppings, sometimes offering bizarre flavors such as everything bagel.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 23 Oct. 2026
Skerritt co-starred opposite Kathy Baker, playing his doctor wife in the community of Rome, Wisconsin, a place with bizarre happenings, like having a robber leaving a trail of frogs or the pope becoming the primary witness to a murder.

— CBS News, CBS News, 22 Oct. 2026

Definition of bizarre

Adjective

Divorced from the context of a map, Texas' congressional districts might just look like a collection of funny shapes.

— CBS News, CBS News, 28 Oct. 2026
China did not find anything funny about the French star laughing at a meme of Mao, the communist dictator whose regime resulted in tens of millions of deaths.

— Mark Harris OutKick, FOXNews.com, 28 Oct. 2026

Definition of funny

Adjective

Alexi’s script gets to the heart of the strange, necessary bonds between humans and animals.

— Alex Ritman, Variety, 30 Oct. 2026
Something in the movement of his hands, too fast, too smooth, too precise, and something in the play of the light and shadow across his knuckles, reveals that something strange is at work.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 30 Oct. 2026

Definition of strange

Adjective

Anyway, aside from the odd finish, what the Bowl audience got in the broader sense was far from an anticlimax in the overall scheme of things.

— Chris Willman, Variety, 30 Oct. 2026
His other weapon was his voice, at once coldly precise and dangerously soft; never before had Malkovich’s distinctly odd cadences sounded so menacing.

— Justin Chang, New Yorker, 30 Oct. 2026

Definition of odd

Adjective

Research shows that a curious mindset can cultivate positive emotions and reduce worry.

— Juli Fraga, Time, 29 Oct. 2026
None of my companions, mostly ocean-curious thirty-something Californians from the Bay and beyond, have been urchin foraging before, but their coolers and bags are soon brimming.

— Joseph Ogilvy, Condé Nast Traveler, 28 Oct. 2026

Definition of curious

Adjective

The prosecution, a rare Department of Justice criminal case against a former employee, revisits a tangled and peculiar saga that roiled the final weeks of the 2020 race.

— Eric Tucker, Los Angeles Times, 23 Oct. 2026
Riley is also of firm belief that Dylan’s peculiar type of vocal delivery, while limited in range, contributed to his Nobel win that other performers fail to possess.

— Devon Ivie, Vulture, 19 Oct. 2026

Definition of peculiar

Adjective

With his eccentric fashion sense and dance moves, lovelorn almost-leading man Duckie remains one of teen cinema’s most memorable characters.

— Sezin Devi Koehler, Entertainment Weekly, 24 Oct. 2026
Just then, Klara meets Josie (Mia Tharia), an eccentric teen, and her distant single mother, Chrissy (Amy Adams).

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 22 Oct. 2026

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