strange
unusual, extraordinary, or curious; odd; queer: a strange remark to make.
estranged, alienated, etc., as a result of being out of one's natural environment: I felt strange as I walked through the crowded marketplace.
situated, belonging, or coming from outside of one's own locality; foreign:to move to a strange place; strange religions.
outside of one's previous experience; hitherto unknown; unfamiliar: strange faces; strange customs.
unaccustomed to or inexperienced in; unacquainted (usually followed by to): I'm strange to this part of the job.
distant or reserved; shy.
in a strange manner.
Origin of strange
1synonym study For strange
Other words for strange
Opposites for strange
Other words from strange
- strangely, adverb
- un·strange, adjective
- un·strange·ly, adverb
- un·strange·ness, noun
Words Nearby strange
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How to use strange in a sentence
Even in the spring, says Jeremy Kamil, a virologist at LSU Health Sciences-Shreveport and another senior author, it was clear that something was strange about Louisiana’s outbreak.
Can Louisiana’s COVID surge trace back to one Mardi Gras reveler? | Philip Kiefer | February 11, 2021 | Popular-ScienceWhile that might sound a little strange, if your heated throw has a plug and runs on electricity—well, that’s an appliance.
Best heated throw blanket: Bundle up with these electric blankets | PopSci Commerce Team | February 11, 2021 | Popular-ScienceThis rebuttal proffers a strange theory of governance that American accounts are somehow bound by the lifetime of its generations.
'Uncomfortable truth’: The new push for a slavery reparations commission in Congress | DeNeen L. Brown | February 10, 2021 | Washington PostAfter months of eating alone, it sounded strange to my ears.
It’s no longer strange to see Tom Brady in a Tampa Bay Buccaneers uniform.
Tom Brady, the one-man dynasty, was Tampa Bay’s perfect missing piece | Jerry Brewer | February 8, 2021 | Washington Post
In front of this strange structure are two blank-faced, well-dressed models showing off the latest in European minimalism.
New York’s Most Tragic Ghost Loves Minimalist Swedish Fashion | Nina Strochlic | January 8, 2015 | THE DAILY BEASTIt was a bit strange for a while here with all the Newsweek stuff.
Coffee Talk with Fred Armisen: On ‘Portlandia,’ Meeting Obama, and Taylor Swift’s Greatness | Marlow Stern | January 7, 2015 | THE DAILY BEASTThe strange Social History of Our Most Intimate Institution.
The Real Story Behind the Fight for Marriage Equality | E.J. Graff | December 30, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTIn another year, stories about the strange new face of an A-list actress might draw chortles and cackles.
Renée Zellweger Got a New Face—and Everyone Had An Opinion About It | Kevin O’Keeffe | December 29, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTLike, OK, to be around them when we were away from work is great, but being at work was still kind of strange for me.
How A Company’s Support of Gay Employees Helped One of Them To Come Out | | December 24, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTIt seems very strange that I shall actually know Liszt at last, after hearing of him so many years.
Music-Study in Germany | Amy FayHe did believe you, more or less, and what you said fell in with his own impressions—strange impressions that they were, poor man!
Confidence | Henry JamesThe associations of place recall her strange interview with Mr. Longcluse but a few months before.
Checkmate | Joseph Sheridan Le FanuAlmost as soon as she had finished building her nest she had discovered a strange-looking egg there.
The Tale of Grandfather Mole | Arthur Scott BaileyHer feet felt rooted to the floor in the wonder and doubt of this strange occurrence.
The Bondboy | George W. (George Washington) Ogden
British Dictionary definitions for strange
/ (streɪndʒ) /
odd, unusual, or extraordinary in appearance, effect, manner, etc; peculiar
not known, seen, or experienced before; unfamiliar: a strange land
not easily explained: a strange phenomenon
(usually foll by to) inexperienced (in) or unaccustomed (to): strange to a task
not of one's own kind, locality, etc; alien; foreign
shy; distant; reserved
strange to say it is unusual or surprising that
physics
denoting a particular flavour of quark
denoting or relating to a hypothetical form of matter composed of such quarks: strange matter; a strange star
not standard in a strange manner
Origin of strange
1Derived forms of strange
- strangely, adverb
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