Strange

/stɹeɪnd͡ʒ/ · adjective

Meaning

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

Definitions by Sense

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

Example Sentences

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

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

Sated at length, ere long I might perceave / Strange alteration in me, to degree / Of Reason in my inward Powers, and Speech / Wanted not long, though to this shape retain’d.

When you're strange / Faces come out of the rain / When you're strange / No one remembers your name

I moved to a strange town when I was ten.

[…] here is the hand and seal of the duke: you know the character, I doubt not; and the signet is not strange to you.

'I'm sure I should have never mentioned anything of the kind to three strange gentlemen if you hadn't dragged it out of me.'

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

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Word Forms

• stranger
• strangest
• stranges
• stranging
• stranged

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