-adj. 2. ebon, jet, black, jet-black, coal-black, inky, pitchy, sooty, fuliginous, dusky, sable; dark,
ebullience, n. 1. boiling up, ferment, fermentation, bubbling over, effervescence, effervescing, overflow, ebullition.
2. high spirits, exhilaration, buoyancy, breeziness, vivacity; exuberance, enthusiasm, zest, spirit; excitement, agitation.
ebullient, adj. high-spirited, exhilarated, buoyant, breezy, vivacious, sparkling, aglow; exuberant, enthusiastic, zestful, irrepressible, excited, agitated; boiling up, bubbling up, effervescent, foamy, foaming, frothy, yeasty; gushing, overflowing, effusive.
ebullition, n. 1. (usu. of feelings) outburst, outbreak, overflowing, seething; fit, storm, explosion, rage, passion; paroxysm, spasm, throe.
2. high-spirits, exhilaration, enthusiasm, ebullience. See - ebullience (def 2).
3. boiling up, fermentation, bubbling over, ebullience. See - ebullience (def. 1).
eccentric, adj. 1. unconventional, uncommon, unique, unusual, unorthodox, uncustomary, unwonted, rare, out of the ordinary; atypical, original, singular, exceptional, individual, lone, sole, solitary; unexampled, unparalleled, unprecedented, unfamiliar, uncomfortable; extraordinary, egregious, astonishing.
2. deviate, deviant, aberrant, stray, wayward, erratic, anomalous, anomalistic, abnormal, irregular, variable; peculiar, curious, queer, odd, oddish, offbeat, quizzical, cranky, Inf. funny, Inf. kinky, off-center, incongruous; quaint, droll, comical, laughable, Inf. quirky, idiosyncratic, flaky, SI. balmy, Chiefly Brit. barmy; strange, weird, bizarre, freakish, grotesque, SI. rum, SI. far out; fanciful, whimsical, notional, crotchety, maggoty, capricious, fickle, waggish.
3. mad, demented, unbalanced, daft, touched, crackbrained, mad as a hatter or March hare; All Inf. cracked, dotty, daffy, Brit, potty, over the top, not all there, have bats in one's belfry, have a screw loose, have a few buttons missing, not playing with a full deck, have rooms to let; All SI. screwy, screwball, mental, kooky, bugs, bughouse, squirrely, wacko, wacky, nuts, loony, loco, nutty, bananas, bats, batty, bonkers, cuckoo or coo-coo, dippy, off one's rocker, off the wall, out in left field, Brit, off one's chump.
4. All Geom. parabolic, hyperbolic, decentered; Astron. elliptic.
-n. 5. character, card, original, pip, sport, exception, individual, nonesuch, nondescript, bohemian; crank, fanatic; crazy, flake, freak, three-dollar bill, crackpot, rare bird, queer fellow, queer duck, queer fish, queer potato, Inf. fruitcake, Inf. dingbat, Inf ding-a-ling; All SI. weirdo, weirdy, weirdie, creep, oddball, screwball, nut, loony, looner, case, geezer, kook, odd duck, squirrel.
6. curiosity, curio, oddity, peculiarity, rarity; aberration, aberrance, aberrancy, deviation, anomaly, Rare. anomalism.
eccentricity, n. 1. oddity, curiosity, rarity; irregularity, incongruity, variation, abnormality, discrepancy, difference, variance, dissimilitude, disparity, inconsistency; exception, singularity, particularity; idiosyncrasy, idiocrasy, mannerism, quirk, twist, kink, hobby-horse; quip, crotchet, whim, caprice, flight of fancy; aberration, aberrance, aberrancy, deviation, anomaly, Rare, anomalism.
2. oddness, strangeness, queerness, bizarreness, curiousness, quirkiness, incongruousness; uncommonness, uncommonality, unconventionality, unusualness, uniqueness, exception, exceptionalness, singularity, singularness, individuality, individualness, distinctiveness; whimsicality, fancifulness, waggishness, capriciousness; outlandishness, preposterousness, extravagance.