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strange
/stɹeɪndʒ/
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What does strange mean?
adjective
- Not normal; odd, unusual, surprising, out of the ordinary, often with a negative connotation.
- Unfamiliar, not yet part of one's experience.
- (slang) Outside of one's current relationship; unfamiliar.
More meanings (14)
adjective
- Having the quantum mechanical property of strangeness.
- Of an attractor: having a fractal structure.
- Not belonging to one.
- (obsolete) Belonging to another country; foreign.
- (obsolete) Reserved; distant in deportment.
- (obsolete) Backward; slow.
- (obsolete) Not familiar; unaccustomed; inexperienced.
noun
- (slang) Sex outside of one's current relationship.
- A strange quark.
proper noun
- A surname.
- A community in King township, Ontario, Canada, named after Frederick William Strange.
verb
- (obsolete) To alienate; to estrange.
- (obsolete) To be estranged or alienated.
- (obsolete) To wonder; to be astonished at (something).
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IPA pronunciation
/stɹeɪndʒ/
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Her wayward sentiment that evening concerning Fanny’s temporary resting-place had been the result of a strange complication of impulses in Bathsheba’s bosom.
I resolved to leave this strange undisciplined dreamer of great things to his drink and gluttony, and to go on into London.
More book examples (3)
When they were all sitting in a row on the top of the wall, they looked down and saw a strange sight.
The two men looked such a strange contrast, and of the two it was Chauvelin who exhibited a slight touch of fear.
At length Tars Tarkas laughed softly, after the manner of his strange kind when in the presence of the horrible or terrifying.