Definitions

outlier

[out-lahy-er] / ˈaʊtˌlaɪ ər /

NOUN

something that stands apart

Synonyms

STRONGEST

aberration deviation eccentricity exception oddity

STRONG

anomaly deviance irregularity quirk

WEAK

bohemian dissenter dissident eccentric heretic iconoclast maverick nonconformist original outsider

Antonyms

STRONGEST

average normality standard

Example Sentences

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With only one top-flight club, Paris had stood as an outlier among major European cities, where white-hot rivalries break along lines of class, geography, and political leaning.

From The Wall Street Journal

Finally, e-commerce platform Shopify is an outlier in the group in that it hasn’t really been an AI loser at all — the stock is up 48% over the past year.

From Barron's

When I first wrote about its governance problems in the early 1990s, the U.S. stock market was an outlier.

From Barron's

He said some manufacturers will have seen this coming and built up their inventory ahead of time to help mitigate the price rises - but called those firms "outliers".

From BBC

The Japanese market paid a price for being such an outlier: Japanese stocks fell for the next 20 years.

From Barron's