Strange
WordNet
adjective
(1) Not known before
"Used many strange words"
"Saw many strange faces in the crowd"
"Don't let anyone unknown into the house"
(2) 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"
(3) Relating to or originating in or characteristic of another place or part of the world
"Foreign nations"
"A foreign accent"
"On business in a foreign city"
WiktionaryText
Etymology
strange from estrange, from extraneus, "that which is on the outside". Displaced native fremd, frempt "strange" (from fremede, fremde).
Adjective
- Not normal; odd, unusual, surprising, out of the ordinary.
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- He thought it strange that his girlfriend wore shorts in the winter.
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- Unfamiliar, not yet part of one's experience.
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- I moved to a strange town when I was ten.
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- Having the quantum mechanical property of strangeness.
- 2004: A strange quark is electrically charged, carrying an amount -1/3, as does the down quark. — Frank Close, Particle Physics: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford 2004, p. 93)
Synonyms
: bizarre, odd, out of the ordinary, peculiar, queer, singular, weird: new, unfamiliar, unknown- See also Wikisaurus:strange