adjective

strange

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adjective

Unusual, odd, or surprising, and not what you would expect.

"There was a strange smell coming from the basement."

"It felt strange going back to the old house after all these years."

Unfamiliar; not previously known or experienced.

"She woke up in a strange city with no idea where she was."

How to Use Strange

Learner’s notes

In plain EnglishOdd, unfamiliar, or hard to explain.

Common pairings

strange feeling strange noise act strange

stranger comparative, stranged past tense, stranges plural, stranges singular, strangest superlative

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From Old French "estrange," from Latin "extraneus" ("that which is on the outside") — the same root as "extraneous" and "estrange."

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aberrant abnormal alien anomalous as queer as Dick's hatband bizarre booky curious deviant discrepant eerie eldritch