strange
Plural: stranges
Adjective
- Unusual, unfamiliar, or peculiar; not previously encountered.
- being definitely out of the ordinary and unexpected; slightly odd or even a bit weird
- "a strange exaltation that was indefinable"
- "a strange fantastical mind"
- "what a strange sense of humor she has"
- relating to or originating in or characteristic of another place or part of the world
Adjective Satellite
- not known before
- "used many strange words"
- "saw many strange faces in the crowd"
Adj
- Not normal; odd, unusual, surprising, out of the ordinary, often with a negative connotation.
- Unfamiliar, not yet part of one's experience.
- Outside of one's current relationship; unfamiliar.
- Having the quantum mechanical property of strangeness.
- Of an attractor: having a fractal structure.
- Belonging to another country; foreign.
- Reserved; distant in deportment.
- Backward; slow.
- Not familiar; unaccustomed; inexperienced.
- Not belonging to one.
Verb
- To alienate; to estrange.
- To be estranged or alienated.
- To wonder; to be astonished at (something).
Noun
- Sex outside of one's current relationship.
- A strange quark.
Examples
- He thought it strange that his girlfriend wore shorts in the winter.
- I moved to a strange town when I was ten.
- It felt strange to have so many ’Z’ tiles, but he managed to play them all.
Origin / Etymology
From Middle English straunge, strange, stronge, from Old French estrange, from Latin extrāneus (“that which is on the outside”). Doublet of extraneous and estrange. Cognate with French étrange (“strange, foreign”) and Spanish extraño (“strange, foreign”). Largely displaced native fremd, selcouth, and uncouth, from Old English fremede, seldcūþ, and uncūþ.
Synonyms
foreign, unknown, unusual, aberrant, abnormal, acquired, additional, adventitious, alien, aloof, anomalous, as queer as Dick's hatband, ascititious, bizarre, callow, cool, curious, deviant, discrepant, distant, eerie, eldritch, errant, exceptional, experienceless, extraneous, extraordinary, fey, forby, freak, freakish, freaky, fremd, fresh, frosty, funny, green, hankty, hard-to-get, heteroclite, hinky, ignote, incongruitous, incongruous, inexperienced, intrusive, irregular, knownless, kooky, monstrous, new, nonstandard, obscure, odd, offish, out of the ordinary, outlandish, outré, peculiar, pup, quaint, queer, queer as Dick's hatband, queer as a clockwork orange, queer as a coot, queer as a nine bob note, queer as a three dollar bill, quiet, rare, raw, remote, reserved, rum, rummy, selcouth, seld, singular, standoffish, strange, supplemental, thorny, touch-me-not-ish, trippy, unapprehended, unapproachable, unascertained, unbending, uncanny, uncommon, unconventional, undemonstrative, undiscovered, unearthly, unexpected, unexperienced, unexplained, unfamiliar, unimpressionable, uninvestigated, uninvolved, unpracticed, unreasonable, unrecognized, unrevealed, unseasoned, unversed, unwonted, weird, weirdsome, yampy
Antonyms
familiar, native, common, everyday, inevitable, intermediate, known, moderate, normal, regular, standard, usual
Scrabble Score: 8
strange: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordstrange: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
strange: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary