antic
adjective
literaryorold useuk/ˈæn.tɪk/us/ˈæn.tɪk/strangeandunusual,especiallyin asillyor veryenergeticway:
Such an anticcomedydoes not need to berealistic.
Hismoodandbehaviourvary, fromsilentintensitytoalmostanticanimation.
Synonym
bizarre
See also
antics
- Ienjoyedtheperformancesand the antichumourof thepiece.
- Theawardsceremonyfeaturedtheusual: theredcarpet,moviestarsand somereliablyanticbehaviour.
- Thesatireis antic andenergetic, butultimatelyweak.
- Even among other 60-somethingrockers, he is an anticfigure.
- Thesingerwriggles,shrieksandgenerallyfillseverymomentwith antic,pointlessenergy.
Strange, suspicious and unnatural
- aberrant
- abnormal
- abnormally
- add
- Alice-in-Wonderland
- funnily
- funnily enoughidiom
- ghostliness
- ghoul
- heterodox
- perversely
- perversity
- perverted
- pervy
- presence
- wack
- wackadoodle
- wackiness
- wacky
- warped