Native and Peculiar

Native

Native adjective - Being a part of the innermost nature of a person or thing.
Usage example: a native energy and ambition that would allow him to rise above his humble beginnings

Peculiar and native are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Peculiar" instead an adjective "Native".

Nearby Words: nativity, natively

Peculiar

Peculiar adjective - Being out of the ordinary.

Native and peculiar are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Native" instead an adjective "Peculiar".

Nearby Words: peculiarity, peculiarly

Both words in one sentence

  • Film / A Clockwork Orange Most peculiar considering that Kubrick had already moved to England - where the novel was first printed - and lived there for more years than in his native America.
  • Black Speech Using real but obscure languages as models for a fictional Black Speech because they sound very peculiar to native speakers of your language can get you into trouble.
    Source: Black Speech
  • A peculiar example would be Azeris, who actually managed to introduce their patronymic system into the Russian language, so Azeri patronymics would be written not in the Russian way, but with native Azeri suffixes "-ogly" ("son of") or "-kyzy" ("daughter of").
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