Thesaurus:strange person

Thesaurus

strange person

English

Noun

Sense: a strange, odd, or eccentric person

Synonyms

• bizarro
• coot
• crackpot
• crank (British, dated in US)
• eccentric    [⇒ thesaurus]
• freak
• glaik (British dialect, derogatory)
• hard case (New Zealand, slang)
• kook
• live one (idiomatic)
• nutbag
• nutbar
• nutcase
• nutter (British, sometimes derogatory)
• oddball
• oddity
• odd bod (British)
• odd duck
• odd fish
• queerdo (vulgar, derogatory)
• queer fish (dated, British)
• rum (obsolete, slang)
• strange bird
• strange fish
• strangeling
• wack
• wacko
• weirdie
• weirdling
• weirdo (slang)
• wild man
• wingnut

Hypernyms

• anomaly    [⇒ thesaurus]
• person    [⇒ thesaurus]

Coordinate terms

• foreigner    [⇒ thesaurus]
• maverick    [⇒ thesaurus]
• outcast    [⇒ thesaurus]

See also

• Thesaurus:eccentric
• Thesaurus:mad person

Further reading

• “83. unconformity” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
• “strange person” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.