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# unusual

«unusual» in Mova's school dictionary: **Not usual or common; different from what normally happens…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

adjective (unusual, more unusual, most unusual)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Not usual or common; different from what normally happens or what you normally see. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unusual/#m1)

2) Interesting because it is different: "an unusual hat". [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unusual/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In science, unusual results in an experiment should be checked and repeated. In safety lessons, unusual smells, sounds or behaviour (gas smell, smoke, a stranger asking odd questions) are warning signs to tell an adult. In stories, something unusual often starts the adventure. Phrases: something unusual, unusual for, it's unusual to, nothing unusual.

### examples

- It's unusual to see snow in April here. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unusual/#x1)
- She wore an unusual purple hat. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unusual/#x2)
- The scientist noticed an unusual result. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unusual/#x3)
- Tell an adult if you smell something unusual, like gas. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unusual/#x4)
- It is unusual for our cat to hide. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unusual/#x5)
- Nothing unusual happened today. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unusual/#x6)
- I happen to have a most unusual shadow. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unusual/#x7)

### note

"Un-" means "not": unusual = not usual. The adverb is "unusually". Use "an": an unusual idea. In maths and data, an unusual value far from the others is called an outlier.

### In the corpora

- [It shows the worst moments, because what is new and unusual today is what makes the news.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/51-scary-news-wars-disasters-and-how-to-talk-about-them/1/)
- [AI is good at the usual cases it has seen many times and often weak at unusual or brand-new ones.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/1-what-is-ai/16/)
- [Banks use AI to spot unusual spending and block possible fraud; sometimes a real payment is blocked by mistake.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/19-ai-in-one-ordinary-day/7/)
- ["A real character" is a polite way to call someone odd, unusual or difficult.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/36-dim-and-round-the-bend/22/)
- [Knowing what is normal in a place makes it easier to spot something unusual.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/11-eyes-up/12/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «unusual» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unusual/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.