For example, par exemple, for instance, exempli gratia, inter alia, to wit, namely, videlicet, that is to say.

    (Phrases). Ab uno disce omnes; cela va sans dire; birds of a feather; noscitur a sociis.

  • Unconformity (Substantives), informality, arbitrariness, abnormity, abnormality, anomaly, anomalousness, lawlessness, peculiarity, exclusiveness, infraction, breach, violation, etc., of law or rule, eccentricity, aberration, irregularity, unevenness, variety, singularity, oddity, oddness, exemption, salvo.
  • Exception, nondescript, a character, nonesuch, monster, monstrosity, prodigy 872, lusus naturœ, rara avis, freak, curiosity, queer fish, half-caste, half-breed, cross-breed, métis, mongrel, hybrid, mule, mulatto 41, tertium quid, hermaphrodite, sport.

    Phœnix, chimera, hydra, sphinx, minotaur, griffin, centaur, hippocentaur, hippogriff, tragelaph, kraken, dragon, seaserpent, mermaid, unicorn, etc.

    (Phrases). Out of one's element; a fish out of water; neither one nor another; neither fish, flesh, nor fowl, nor good red herring; a law to oneself.

    (Verbs). To be unconformable to rule, to be exceptional; to stretch a point.

    (Phrases). To have no business there; to beggar description.

    (Adjectives). Unconformable, exceptional, abnormal, anomalous, anomalistic, out of order, out of place, misplaced, irregular, uneven, arbitrary, informal, aberrant, stray, peculiar, exclusive, unnatural, eccentric, unconventional, Bohemian.

    Unusual, unaccustomed, unwonted, uncommon, rare, singular, unique, curious, odd, extraordinary, strange, outré, out of the way, egregious, out of the ordinary, unheard of, queer, quaint, old-fashioned, nondescript, undescribed, unexampled, sui generis, unprecedented, unparalleled, unfamiliar, fantastic, new-fangled, grotesque, bizarre, weird, eerie, outlandish, exotic, preternatural, unexampled, unrepresentative, uncanny, denaturalised.

    Heterogeneous, heteroclite, amorphous, out of the pale of, mongrel, amphibious, epicene, half-blood, hybrid 41, androgynous, betwixt and between.

    (Phrases). Unlike what the world ever saw; without a parallel; "none but himself could be his parallel"; fallen from the clouds; caviar to the general.

    (Adverbs). Except, unless, save, barring, beside, without, but for, save and except, let alone, to say nothing of.

    However, yet, but, unusually, etc.

    (Phrases). Never was seen, or heard, or known the like.


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