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Today's Word "Heteroclite"

A person who is unconventional on

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heteroclite \HET-uhr-uh-klyt\ (adjective) - 1 : Deviating from the ordinary rule; eccentric. 2 : (In grammar) Irregularly inflected. 3 : (noun) A person who is unconventional; a maverick. 4 : A word that is irregularly formed.

"Gene could never have imagined nor dreamed the heteroclite crew of men he had met aboard the tramp steamer."

 

From Middle French, from Late Latin heteroclitus, from Greek heteroklitos, from hetero- + klinein (to lean, inflect). Ultimately from the Indo-European root klei (to lean). Other words derived from the same root are decline, incline, recline, lean, client, climax, and ladder.


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