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What's The Definition Of Strange?
[adj] not at ease or comfortable; "felt strange among so many important people"
[adj] not known before; "used many strange words"; "saw many strange faces in the crowd"; "don't let anyone unknown into the house" [adj] 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" [adj] being or from or characteristic of another place or part of the world; "alien customs"; "exotic plants in a greenhouse"; "moved to a strange country" Synonyms | Synonyms for Strange: alien | antic | crazy | curious | eerie | eery | exotic | fantastic | fantastical | foreign | freaky | funny | gothic | grotesque | odd | oddish | other | peculiar | quaint | queer | rum | rummy | singular | uneasy | unfamiliar | unknown | unusual | weird Related Terms | Find terms related to Strange: See Also | Strange In Webster's Dictionary \Strange\, a. [Compar. {Stranger}; superl. {Strangest}.]
[OE. estrange, F. ['e]trange, 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. --Shak.
I do not contemn the knowledge of strange and divers
tongues. --Ascham.
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. --Sir J.
Davies.
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. --Shak.
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. --Milton.
5. Reserved; distant in deportment. --Shak.
She may be strange and shy at first, but will soon
learn to love thee. --Hawthorne.
6. Backward; slow. [Obs.]
Who, loving the effect, would not be strange In
favoring the cause. --Beau. & Fl.
7. Not familiar; unaccustomed; inexperienced.
In thy fortunes am unlearned and strange. --Shak.
Note: Strange is often used as an exclamation.
Strange! what extremes should thus preserve the
snow High on the Alps, or in deep caves below.
--Waller.
{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\, adv. Strangely. [Obs.] Most strange, but yet most truly, will I speak. --Shak. \Strange\, v. t. To alienate; to estrange. [Obs.] \Strange\, v. i. 1. To be estranged or alienated. [Obs.] 2. To wonder; to be astonished. [Obs.] --Glanvill. |
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