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quaint collapse: strange in an interesting or pleasing way; "quaint dialect words"; "quaint streets of New Orleans, that most foreign of American cities"; very strange or unusual; odd or even incongruous in character or appearance; "the head terminating in the quaint duck bill which gives the animal its vernacular name"- Bill Beatty; "came forth a quaint and fearful sight"- Sir Walter Scott; "a quaint sense of humor"

unprecedented collapse: having no precedent; novel; "an unprecedented expansion in population and industry"

bewildering collapse: causing bafflement; "the play was at the same time a bewildering and an exciting experience"

funny collapse: experiencing odd bodily sensations; "told the doctor about the funny sensations in her chest"

curious collapse: eager to investigate and learn or learn more (sometimes about others' concerns); "a curious child is a teacher's delight"; "a trap door that made me curious"; "curious investigators"; "traffic was slowed by curious rubberneckers"; "curious about the neighbor's doings"; beyond or deviating from the usual or expected; "a curious hybrid accent"; "her speech has a funny twang"; "they have some funny ideas about war"; "had an odd name"; "the peculiar aromatic odor of cloves"; "something definitely queer about this town"; "what a rum fellow"; "singular behavior"; having curiosity aroused; eagerly interested in learning more; "a trap door that made me curious"

remarkable collapse: unusual or striking; "a remarkable sight"; "such poise is singular in one so young"

singular collapse: the form of a word that is used to denote a singleton; being a single and separate person or thing; "can the singular person be understood apart from his culture?"; "every fact in the world might be singular...unlike any other fact and sole of its kind"-William James; grammatical number category referring to a single item or unit; composed of one member, set, or kind; the single one of its kind; "a singular example"; "the unique existing example of Donne's handwriting"; "a unique copy of an ancient manuscript"; "certain types of problems have unique solutions"

peculiar collapse: markedly different from the usual; "a peculiar hobby of stuffing and mounting bats"; "a man...feels it a peculiar insult to be taunted with cowardice by a woman"-Virginia Woolf

amazing collapse: inspiring awe or admiration or wonder; "New York is an amazing city"; "the Grand Canyon is an awe-inspiring sight"; "the awesome complexity of the universe"; "this sea, whose gently awful stirrings seem to speak of some hidden soul beneath"- Melville; "Westminster Hall's awing majesty, so vast, so high, so silent"; surprising greatly; "she does an amazing amount of work"; "the dog was capable of astonishing tricks"

beguiling collapse: misleading by means of pleasant or alluring methods; "taken in by beguiling tales of overnight fortunes"

unfamiliar collapse: not known or well known; "a name unfamiliar to most"; "be alert at night especially in unfamiliar surroundings"

incomprehensible collapse: difficult to understand; "the most incomprehensible thing about the universe is that it is comprehensible"- A. Einstein

absurd collapse: a situation in which life seems irrational and meaningless; "The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth"--Albert Camus; inconsistent with reason or logic or common sense; "the absurd predicament of seeming to argue that virtue is highly desirable but intensely unpleasant"- Walter Lippman; incongruous;inviting ridicule; "the absurd excuse that the dog ate his homework"; "that's a cockeyed idea"; "ask a nonsensical question and get a nonsensical answer"; "a contribution so small as to be laughable"; "it is ludicrous to call a cottage a mansion"; "a preposterous attempt to turn back the pages of history"; "her conceited assumption of universal interest in her rather dull children was ridiculous"

unrelated collapse: not connected by kinship; lacking a logical or causal relation

weird collapse: strikingly odd or unusual; "some trick of the moonlight; some weird effect of shadow"- Bram Stoker

unbeknown collapse: without someone's knowledge; "unbeknownst to me, she made all the arrangements"

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