1. adjective. If you describe a person or their attitude or behavior as unconventional, you mean that they do not behave in the same way as most other people in their society. They are seen as being unconvential geniuses. He was known for his unconventional behavior.

Unconventional Synonyms – WordHippo Thesaurus….What is another word for unconventional?

eccentric. noun. Definition of eccentric (Entry 2 of 2) 1 : a person who behaves in odd or unusual ways : an eccentric person.

1a : designed for or understood by the specially initiated alone a body of esoteric legal doctrine— B. N. Cardozo. b : requiring or exhibiting knowledge that is restricted to a small group esoteric terminology broadly : difficult to understand esoteric subjects.

Esoteric means “understood by only a chosen few”. An esoteric person would have select interests shared by few others and would speak in big or rarely used words, that would typically go over the heads of the people s/he converses with.

The adjective obtuse is good for describing someone slow on the uptake: “Don’t be so obtuse: get with the program!” The adjective obtuse literally means “rounded” or “blunt,” but when it’s used for a person, it means “not quick or alert in perception” — in other words, not the sharpest tool in the shed.

Abstruse is used to describe things that aren’t easily accessible to the lay reader or average person. Specifically, it suggests the use of language or other material that suits the advanced levels of a subject of which the rest of us might have only an elementary understanding.

Obtuse, which comes to us from the Latin word obtusus, meaning “dull” or “blunt,” can describe an angle that is not acute or a person who is mentally “dull” or slow of mind. The word has also developed a somewhat controversial sense of “hard to comprehend,” probably as a result of confusion with abstruse.

Any person or thing that’s mysterious, mystifying, hard to read, or impossible to interpret is inscrutable.

1. abstruse ideas or arguments are hard to understand, and are more complicated than necessary. Synonyms and related words. + Not having a clear meaning.

Abstruse Sentence Examples Bell is proficient in many fields of science, and has the art of making every subject he touches interesting, even the most abstruse theories. He had the imagination that invested with personal being and ethical qualities the most abstruse notions.

1 : marked by compact precise expression without wasted words a succinct description. 2 archaic. a : being girded. b : close-fitting.

Synonyms & Antonyms of abstruse

• arcane,
• deep,
• esoteric,
• hermetic.
• (also hermetical),
• profound,
• recondite.

1a : supple enough to bend freely or repeatedly without breaking. b : yielding readily to others : complaisant.

bewitch. Antonyms: exorcise, disillusionize, disenchant. Synonyms: enchant, fascinate, charm, captivate, entrance.

Synonyms & Near Synonyms for accrue. accumulate, amass, collect.

Antonyms & Near Antonyms for accrued. decremental, decrescent, degressive, regressive.

If you say that someone is vindictive, you are critical of them because they deliberately try to upset or cause trouble for someone who they think has done them harm. …a vindictive woman desperate for revenge against the man who loved and left her.

SYNONYMS FOR rude 1 uncivil, unmannerly, curt, brusque, impertinent, impudent, saucy, pert, fresh. 2 unrefined, uncultured, uncivilized, uncouth, coarse, vulgar, rough.

When you’re spiteful, you act in a mean way, with a desire to hurt someone. If you act or speak with the desire to hurt, bother, or infuriate someone, you are being spiteful.