PECULIARLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does peculiarly mean? 

• PECULIARLY (adverb)
  The adverb PECULIARLY has 3 senses:

1. uniquely or characteristically

2. in a manner differing from the usual or expected

3. to a distinctly greater extent or degree than is common

  Familiarity information: PECULIARLY used as an adverb is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PECULIARLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Uniquely or characteristically

Synonyms:

particularly; peculiarly

Context example:

everyone has a moment in history which belongs particularly to him

Pertainym:

peculiar (unique or specific to a person or thing or category)

Sense 2

Meaning:

In a manner differing from the usual or expected

Synonyms:

curiously; inexplicably; oddly; peculiarly

Context example:

he's behaving rather peculiarly

Pertainym:

peculiar (beyond or deviating from the usual or expected)

Sense 3

Meaning:

To a distinctly greater extent or degree than is common

Synonyms:

especially; particularly; peculiarly; specially

Context example:

an especially (or specially) cautious approach to the danger

Pertainym:

peculiar (markedly different from the usual)

 Context examples 

There is some rumour that he is or has been a clergyman, but one or two incidents of his short residence at the Hall struck me as peculiarly unecclesiastical.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

We are, to be sure, a miracle every way; but our powers of recollecting and of forgetting do seem peculiarly past finding out.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

So peculiarly the lady in it.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

Everybody allows that the talent of writing agreeable letters is peculiarly female.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

I may have a conviction, Mr. Copperfield, that Mr. Micawber's manners peculiarly qualify him for the Banking business.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

These are the kind of little things which please her ladyship, and it is a sort of attention which I conceive myself peculiarly bound to pay.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

If you knew it, you are peculiarly situated: very near happiness; yes, within reach of it.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Mr Shepherd was eloquent on the subject; pointing out all the circumstances of the Admiral's family, which made him peculiarly desirable as a tenant.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

It was a singular spot, and one peculiarly well suited to the grim humour of my patient.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“Such paper could not be bought under half a crown a packet. It is peculiarly strong and stiff.”

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)