From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Unusual \Un*u"su*al\, adjective Not usual; uncommon; rare; as, an unusual season; a person of unusual grace or erudition. -- {Un*u"su*al*ly}, adverb -- {Un*u"su*al*ness}, noun
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
adjective
1: not usual or common or ordinary; "a scene of unusual beauty"; "a man of unusual ability"; "cruel and unusual punishment"; "an unusual meteorite" [ant: {usual}]
2: being definitely out of the ordinary and unexpected; slightly odd or even a bit weird; "a strange exaltation that was indefinable"; "a strange fantastical mind"; "what a strange sense of humor she has" [syn: {strange}] [ant: {familiar}]
3: not commonly encountered; "two-career families are no longer unusual"
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
52 Moby Thesaurus words for "unusual": almost unheard-of, atypical, bizarre, breakaway, curious, different, eccentric, exceptional, extraordinary, extremely, freakish, infrequent, novel, odd, oddball, offbeat, original, outlandish, peculiar, quaint, queer, rare, rarely, recherche, remarkable, scarce, seldom met with, seldom seen, singular, slow, sparse, strange, sui generis, uncommon, uncommonly, unconventional, uncustomary, undreamed-of, unexpected, unfamiliar, unfrequent, unheard-of, unimaginable, unique, unordinary, unorthodox, unprecedented, unthinkable, unthought-of, untypical, unusually, unwonted
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