Strange

Quick meaning: Strange is an adjective meaning Not normal; odd, unusual, surprising, out of the ordinary, often with a negative connotation.

Meaning

Not normal; odd, unusual, surprising, out of the ordinary, often with a negative connotation.

More Meanings

1. Unfamiliar, not yet part of one's experience.
2. (particle physics) Having the quantum mechanical property of strangeness.
3. (mathematics) Of an attractor: having a fractal structure.
4. (slang, of sex, genitals, etc) Outside of one's current relationship; unfamiliar.
5. (obsolete) Belonging to another country; foreign.
6. (obsolete) Reserved; distant in deportment.
7. (obsolete) Backward; slow.

Example Sentences

I moved to a strange town when I was ten.

I do love nothing in the world so well as you: is not that strange?

He thought it strange that his girlfriend wore shorts in the winter.

She's probably sitting there hoping a couple of strange detectives will drop in.

Word Forms

• stranger
• strangest
• stranges
• stranging
• stranged

Synonyms for strange

Depending on context, synonyms include aberrant, abnormal, alien, anomalous, bizarre, booky.

Antonyms for strange

Common opposites include common, familiar, inevitable, intermediate, moderate, normal.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include peculiar, weird, odd, unusual, freaky, eerie.

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