eclectic
IPA: ɪkɫˈɛktɪk
noun
- Someone who selects according to the eclectic method.
adjective
- Selecting a mixture of what appears to be best of various doctrines, methods or styles.
- Unrelated and unspecialized; heterogeneous.
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Examples of "eclectic" in Sentences
- The interior is chic and eclectic.
- The text of the manuscript is eclectic.
- The Greek text of the manuscript is eclectic.
- He is considered the more eclectic of the two.
- The album's guests are as eclectic as the band.
- She also is the owner of the eclectic restaurant in Utrecht.
- His wide ranging, eclectic style blended archaism and modernity.
- The architecture of the door is contrary to eclectic Turkish style.
- Diderot portrayed syncretism as the concordance of eclectic sources.
- The station plays an eclectic mix of pop music most of the broadcast day.
- Today, musical performers from Kanye West to Yo Yo Ma are called "eclectic."
- She’s not my type: meaner than me, taller than me, has a kid, uses the word eclectic in her stories too often.
- Top of the list and most eclectic is this content-rich website from the La Laguna region of Durango and Coahuila.
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- The hotel, built within a 1950s low-rise, calls itself "eclectic" -- perhaps referring to the mix of British colonial furniture, painted an airy white in some rooms, with modern art and lamp fixtures.
- I rarely match in that official "ladies who lunch" way, but I firmly believe that coloring outside of the lines and being eclectic is the true measure of an interesting person that I want to know better.
- Richard Cahan, co-author with Michael Williams of the 400-page art book "Edgar Miller and the Handmade Home," published in 2009, mentioned the word "eclectic" to describe Miller's style, then took it back.
- My own pedagogy, while eclectic, is biased toward formalism for several reasons, including, inescapably, my early training in the New Criticism and my reservations concerning the extra-literary direction of literary studies over the last several decades.