uncharacteristic
adjEtymology From un- + characteristic.
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.2004 November 29, John Markoff, “The Disco Ball of Failed Hopes and Other Tales From Inside Intel”, in The New York Times:
- Synonyms
- foreign
- Derived terms
- uncharacteristically