strange

[Strange]

Anything that is unusual or out of the ordinary can be described as strange, like the strange sight of an ice cream truck pulling up in front of your school and your principal skipping over to it.

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Belonging to another country; foreign.

Adjective S.
not at ease or comfortable; "felt strange among so many important people"

Adjective S.
not known before; "used many strange words"; "saw many strange faces in the crowd"; "don''t let anyone unknown into the house"

Adjective
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"

superl.
Belonging to another country; foreign.

superl.
Of or pertaining to others; not one's own; not pertaining to one's self; not domestic.

superl.
Not before known, heard, or seen; new.

superl.
Not according to the common way; novel; odd; unusual; irregular; extraordinary; unnatural; queer.

superl.
Reserved; distant in deportment.

superl.
Backward; slow.

superl.
Not familiar; unaccustomed; inexperienced.

adv.
Strangely.

v. t.
To alienate; to estrange.

v. i.
To be estranged or alienated.

v. i.
To wonder; to be astonished.

Strange

Strange , a. [Compar. Stranger ; superl. Strangest .] [OE. estrange, F. '82trange, fr. L. extraneus that is without, external, foreign, fr. extra on the outside. See Extra, and cf. Estrange, Extraneous.] 1. Belonging to another country; foreign. "To seek strange strands." Chaucer.

One of the strange queen's lords.

I do not contemn the knowledge of strange and divers tongues.

2. Of or pertaining to others; not one's own; not pertaining to one's self; not domestic.

So she, impatient her own faults to see, Turns from herself, and in strange things delights.

3. Not before known, heard, or seen; new.

Here is the hand and seal of the duke; you know the character, I doubt not; and the signet is not strange to you.

4. Not according to the common way; novel; odd; unusual; irregular; extraordinary; unnatural; queer. "He is sick of a strange fever." Shak.

Sated at length, erelong I might perceive Strange alteration in me.

5. Reserved; distant in deportment. Shak.

She may be strange and shy at first, but will soon learn to love thee.

6. Backward; slow. [Obs.]

Who, loving the effect, would not be strange In favoring the cause.

7. Not familiar; unaccustomed; inexperienced.

In thy fortunes am unlearned and strange.

&hand; Strange is often used as an exclamation.

Strange! what extremes should thus preserve the snow High on the Alps, or in deep caves below.

Strange sail (Naut.), an unknown vessel. -- Strange woman (Script.), a harlot. Prov. v. 3. -- To make it strange. (a) To assume ignorance, suspicion, or alarm, concerning it. Shak. (b) To make it a matter of difficulty. [Obs.] Chaucer. -- To make strange, To make one's self strange. (a) To profess ignorance or astonishment. (b) To assume the character of a stranger. Gen. xlii. 7. Syn. -- Foreign; new; outlandish; wonderful; astonishing; marvelous; unusual; odd; uncommon; irregular; queer; eccentric.

Strange

Strange, adv. Strangely. [Obs.]

Most strange, but yet most truly, will I speak.

Strange

Strange, v. t. To alienate; to estrange. [Obs.]

Strange

Strange, v. i. 1. To be estranged or alienated. [Obs.] 2. To wonder; to be astonished. [Obs.] Glanvill.

Belonging to another country; foreign.

Strangely.

To alienate; to estrange.

To be estranged or alienated.

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Usage Examples

A rose is the visible result of an infinitude of complicated goings on in the bosom of the earth and in the air above, and similarly a work of art is the product of strange activities in the human mind.

A metaphysical tour de force of untethered meaning and involuting interlocking contrapuntal rhythms, 'The Clock' is more than a movie or even a work of art. It is so strange and other-ish that it becomes a stream-of-consciousness algorithm unto itself - something almost inhuman.

But I think bands that rolled in with a big attitude, like they were some big deal, I just found that very strange.

Beauty can come in strange forms.

All things must change to something new, to something strange.

As life runs on, the road grows strange with faces new - and near the end. The milestones into headstones change, Neath every one a friend.

Everybody hangs out with everybody, which is very strange for a cast this large and this young. We're all cool and down to earth and not caught up in this maniacal business at all... . Everybody really, really likes everybody else.

Being a Barrymore didn't help me, other than giving me a great sense of pride and a strange spiritual sense that I felt OK about having the passion to act. It made sense because my whole family had done it and it helped rationalise it for me.

Becoming famous is a strange thing in your own right.

Misspelled Form

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Other Usage Examples

As for doing good that is one of the professions which is full. Moreover I have tried it fairly and, strange as it may seem, am satisfied that it does not agree with my constitution.

Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little we owe it everything. The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.

A strange thing is memory, and hope one looks backward, and the other forward one is of today, the other of tomorrow. Memory is history recorded in our brain, memory is a painter, it paints pictures of the past and of the day.

For strange effects and extraordinary combinations we must go to life itself, which is always far more daring than any effort of the imagination.

For many women, going back to work a few months after having a baby is overwhelming and unmanageable. As strange as it may seem, things get even more difficult for a working mom after the second and third baby arrive. By that time, the romance of being a modern 'superwoman' wears off and reality sets in.

Also, as I lay there thinking of my vision, I could see it all again and feel the meaning with a part of me like a strange power glowing in my body but when the part of me that talks would try to make words for the meaning, it would be like fog and get away from me.

As soon as I got out there I felt a strange relationship with the pitcher's mound. It was as if I'd been born out there. Pitching just felt like the most natural thing in the world. Striking out batters was easy.

Being a monarchist - saying that one small group is born more worthy of respect than another - is just as warped and strange as being a racist.

Content and technology are strange bed fellows. We are joined together. Sometimes we misunderstand each other. But isn't that after all the definition of marriage?

A lawyer I once knew told me of a strange case, a suffragette who had never married. After her death, he opened her trunk and discovered 50 wedding gowns.