8 letters · 12 points in Scrabble
adjective beyond or deviating from the usual or expected
adjective unique or specific to a person or thing or category
adjective markedly different from the usual; ; -Virginia Woolf
originFrom Latin pecūliāris (“one's own”), from pecūlium (“private property”), from pecus (“cattle”).
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