strange
Not normal; odd, unusual, surprising, out of the ordinary, often with a negative connotation.
Example
“He thought it strange that his girlfriend wore shorts in the winter.”
Other meanings
Unfamiliar, not yet part of one's experience.
“I moved to a strange town when I was ten.”
Having the quantum mechanical property of strangeness.
Synonyms
- unusual
Related words
- multistrange
- nonstrange
- sstrange
- sstrange squark
- strange-ass
- strangeon
- strangification
- strangify
- unstrange
- bestrange
- fact is stranger than fiction
- like a cat in a strange garret
Example sentences
Word history
From Latin "extrāneus" (that which is on the outside).
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “strange” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.