Difference between Peculiar and Specific

What is the difference between Peculiar and Specific?

Peculiar as an adjective is out of the ordinary; odd; curious; unusual. while Specific as an adjective is explicit or definite

Peculiar

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Out of the ordinary; odd; curious; unusual. Common or usual for a certain place or circumstance; specific or particular.

Example sentence: The revealed Word awakened me, but it was the preached Word that saved me, and I must ever attach peculiar value to the hearing of the truth, for by it I received the joy and peace in which my soul delights.

Specific

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A distinguishing attribute or quality.Something particularly adapted for a particular use, as a remedy for a particular disorderSpecificationThe details; particulars.

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: explicit or definiteof, or relating to a speciespertaining to a taxon at the rank of speciesspecial, distinctive or uniqueintended for, or applying to a particular thingbeing a remedy for a particular diseaselimited to a particular antibody or antigena value divided by mass (e.g. specific orbital energy)similarly referring to a value divided by any measure which acts to standardize it (e.g. thrust specific fuel consumption, referring to fuel consumption divided by thrust)a measure compared with a standard reference value by division, to produce a ratio without unit or dimension (e.g. specific refractive index is a pure number, and is relative to that of air)

Example sentence: I went to a general store but they wouldn't let me buy anything specific.

We hope you now know whether to use Peculiar or Specific in your sentence.

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