strange

Meaning

Adj

1. Not normal; odd, unusual, surprising, out of the ordinary, often with a negative connotation.
2. Unfamiliar, not yet part of one's experience.
3. (slang) Outside of one's current relationship; unfamiliar.
4. (particle) Having the quantum mechanical property of strangeness.
5. Of an attractor: having a fractal structure.
6. (obsolete) Belonging to another country; foreign.
7. (obsolete) Reserved; distant in deportment.
8. (obsolete) Backward; slow.
9. (obsolete) Not familiar; unaccustomed; inexperienced.
10. Not belonging to one.

Verb

1. (obsolete, transitive) To alienate; to estrange.
2. (intransitive, obsolete) To be estranged or alienated.
3. (intransitive, obsolete) To wonder; to be astonished at (something).

Noun

1. (slang, uncountable) Sex outside of one's current relationship.
2. (countable, particle) A strange quark.

Opposite of

everyday, normal, regular, standard, usual, familiar, known

Synonyms

odd

peculiar

unusual

queer

weird

foreign

bizarre

curious

eccentric

unknown

unfamiliar

alien

👽

funny

😄

wonderful

different

outlandish

extraordinary

surprising

abnormal

mysterious

uncommon

amusing

interesting

uncanny

singular

rare

fantastic

quaint

novel

astonishing

amazing

new

🆕

eerie

stranger

other

obscure

wierd

marvel

remarkable

enigmatic

suspicious

unacquainted

wacky

incomprehensible

wonder

freaky

unconventional

unexpected

monstrous

occult

Translations

extraño

étrange

strano

bizarre

seltsam

fremd

raro

vreemd

sonderbar

estranho

merkwürdig

komisch

raar

eigenaardig

estrany

👽

Pronounced as (IPA)

/stɹeɪnd͡ʒ/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: straunge

Cognate with French: étrange

Cognate with Spanish: extraño

In summary

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.

Sentences

But a strange thing happened .

What a strange kind of person !

The buttons made a strange clicking sound when pressed .