strange
IPA: strˈeɪndʒ
noun
- (slang, uncountable) Sex outside of one's current relationship.
- (particle physics, countable) A strange quark.
- A surname.
- A community in King township, Ontario, Canada, named after Frederick William Strange.
verb
- (obsolete, transitive) To alienate; to estrange.
- (obsolete, intransitive) To be estranged or alienated.
- (obsolete, intransitive) To wonder; to be astonished at (something).
adjective
- Not normal; odd, unusual, surprising, out of the ordinary.
- Unfamiliar, not yet part of one's experience.
- (slang, of sex, genitals, etc) Outside of one's current relationship; unfamiliar.
- (particle physics) Having the quantum mechanical property of strangeness.
- (mathematics) Of an attractor: having a fractal structure.
- (obsolete) Belonging to another country; foreign.
- (obsolete) Reserved; distant in deportment.
- (obsolete) Backward; slow.
- (obsolete) Not familiar; unaccustomed; inexperienced.
- (law) Not belonging to one.
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Examples of "strange" in Sentences
- They had a strange accent.
- The matter is vexing and even strange.
- This wedding felt strange and joyless.
- The strangeness of the quote is obvious.
- The names in the information box are strange.
- The tenets of the religion are strange to you.
- Instead it was a strange quietude and emptiness.
- Albert was a strange boy and was always absentminded.
- Albert was a strange boy, and was always absentminded.
- The strange thing is that the numbers of the articles are different.
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