strange

IPA: strˈeɪndʒ

(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.

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.

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.
A strange visitor, my noble Lord, strange indeed!
Albert was a strange boy and was always absentminded.
Albert was a strange boy, and was always absentminded.
How shall I tell you the strange -- _strange_ incident?
Lover said affected her; _it was strange, 'twas wondrous strange_.
The strange thing is that the numbers of the articles are different.
A strange banquet, but the word strange had such little meaning now.
_This strange and self_ abuse, means, _this strange_ deception _of himself_.
People are strange, when you’re a stranger …….then again, ’strange’ is relative.
"How strange -- _how strange_!" she repeated, as she looked down on the little blanched and stiffening face.
When Belinda questioned Marriott more particularly about the strange hints which her lady had let fall, she with looks of embarrassment and horror declined repeating the words that had been said to her; yet persisted in asserting that Lady Delacour had been very _strange_ for these two or three days.