- 1不像平常那樣的、反常的（指與某人一貫作風不符）
Not like someone's usual self, and therefore a little surprising. You use it when a person does something that does not fit the person you know: 'an uncharacteristic mistake', 'uncharacteristic silence from a talkative student'. Because it means 'unlike the usual', it only makes sense when there IS a usual — you need to know the person or thing already. It often criticism: calling an error 'uncharacteristic' quietly says 'this is not who you normally are, so I am not worried'. It follows a noun with 'of': 'That was uncharacteristic of him.' It can describe things as well as people — 'uncharacteristic weather for June' — though people are the common case. It is a fairly formal word, more common in writing and in polite speech than in casual chat.
組成un-（不）+ characteristic（典型的、有特色的）。characteristic 來自希臘文 χαρακτήρ (kharaktḗr)「刻印的記號」——一個人身上刻著的獨有標記。
同家族的字
- charactersame Greek kharaktḗr — the stamped mark that makes something itself
- characteristicthe positive form: typical of someone
- characterizesame root, from Greek kharaktērízō — to describe what marks something out
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
uncharacteristicadj
- 1
Not characteristic.
- 2
Out of character; behavior that is unusual for a given person or thing.
- The decision to preannounce an unproven technology was an uncharacteristic one for Intel, said G. Dan Hutcheson, president of VLSI Research Inc., and a longtime observer of the company.
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。