WordNet
adj. distinctive and not typical; "a book uncharacteristic of its author" [syn: uncharacteristic] [ant: characteristic]
Usage examples of "uncharacteristic of".
This behavior was totally uncharacteristic of the woman he knew and loved, but Pias was determined to solve the mystery.
And to do him credit, he had presented it with a lack of leering cynicism quite uncharacteristic of his network.
It was a solitary animal, unheard of with such a gregarious species, and immediately after that he saw that this animal was too big to be a baboon, and that its movements were uncharacteristic of an ape.
Maybe he didn't pry Jilly's fingers out of his shirt with a cruel force uncharacteristic of him, and maybe he didn't shove her violently away from him.
A rather smallish Khagggun, possessed of a mild manner uncharacteristic of the species.
Still, Merelan's acceptance of any posting away from him, away from the Hall, was so uncharacteristic of her that he could think of no reason at all beyond that rather trite one.
What she had in mind was even more uncharacteristic of her than her conversation with King Joyse.
It was an illogical response, uncharacteristic of the methodical, rational Brink that he'd come to know.
Instead she kept remembering Dazza's tears, so uncharacteristic of the craggy colonel, when the doctor realized Vyrl was going to live.