Strange

Adjective

 * 1) Not normal; odd, unusual, surprising, out of the ordinary.
 * He thought it strange that his girlfriend wore shorts in the winter.
 * 1) Unfamiliar, not yet part of one's experience.
 * I moved to a strange town when I was ten.
 * 1) * 1955, Rex Stout, "The Next Witness", in Three Witnesses, October 1994 Bantam edition, ISBN 0553249592, pages 48–49:
 * She's probably sitting there hoping a couple of strange detectives will drop in.
 * 1)  Having the quantum mechanical property of strangeness.
 * 2) * 2004 Frank Close, Particle Physics: A Very Short Introduction, Oxford, page 93:
 * A strange quark is electrically charged, carrying an amount -1/3, as does the down quark.

Synonyms

 * bizarre, odd, out of the ordinary, peculiar, queer, singular, weird, fremd
 * : new, unfamiliar, unknown
 * See also Thesaurus:strange

Antonyms

 * everyday, normal, regular, standard, usual, unsurprising
 * : familiar, known

Derived terms

 * for some strange reason
 * like a cat in a strange garret
 * strange as it may seem
 * strange bird
 * strangelet


 * strange matter
 * strange quark
 * strangely
 * strangeness
 * strangeonium


 * stranger things happen at sea, stranger things have happened at sea
 * strange to say
 * truth is stranger than fiction

Related terms

 * estrange, estranged
 * stranger

Thesaurus
aberrant, able, abnormal, absurd, alien, amazing, anomalous, apart, astonishing, astounding, atypical, barbarian, barbaric, barbarous, beguiling, bereft of reason, bewildering, bizarre, brainsick, crackbrained, cracked, crank, crankish, cranky, crazed, crazy, crotchety, curious, daft, deluded, demented, deprived of reason, deranged, detached, deviant, deviative, different, disconnected, discrete, disjunct, disoriented, disrelated, dissociated, distraught, divergent, dotty, eccentric, enigmatic, erratic, exceptional, exotic, exterior, external, extraneous, extraordinary, extraterrestrial, extrinsic, fabulous, fantastic, fascinating, fey, fishy, flaky, flighty, foreign, foreign-born, freaked out, freakish, freaky, funny, grotesque, hallucinated, idiocratic, idiosyncratic, incalculable, incognizable, incommensurable, incomparable, incomprehensible, inconceivable, incredible, independent, inexplicable, insane, insular, intrusive, irrational, irregular, irrelative, isolated, kinky, kooky, loco, lunatic, mad, maddened, maggoty, manic, marvelous, mazed, mental, mentally deficient, meshuggah, miraculous, moon-struck, mysterious, new, non compos, non compos mentis, not all there, not right, novel, nutty, odd, oddball, of unsound mind, off, off the wall, offbeat, original, other, out, out-of-the-way, outland, outlandish, outre, outside, passing strange, peculiar, phenomenal, prodigious, psycho, puzzling, quaint, queer, quirky, rare, reasonless, remarkable, removed, romanesque, romantic, rum, rummy, screwball, screwy, sealed, segregate, sensational, senseless, separate, separated, sick, singular, spectacular, stark-mad, stark-staring mad, striking, stupendous, surprising, tetched, touched, twisted, ulterior, unaccountable, unaccustomed, unaffiliated, unallied, unapparent, unapprehended, unascertained, unassociated, unbalanced, unbeknown, uncanny, uncharted, unclassified, uncommon, unconnected, unconventional, uncouth, undisclosed, undiscoverable, undiscovered, undivulged, unearthly, unexplained, unexplored, unexposed, unfamiliar, unfathomed, unheard, unheard-of, unhinged, unidentified, unimaginable, uninvestigated, unique, unknowable, unknown, unnatural, unperceived, unplumbed, unprecedented, unrelatable, unrelated, unrevealed, unsane, unsettled, unsound, unsuspected, untouched, unusual, virgin, wacky, wandering, weird, whimsical, witless, wonderful, wondrous, wondrous strange

Etymology
strange from estrange, from  extraneus, "that which is on the outside". Displaced native fremd, frempt "strange" (from  fremede, fremde).

Translations

 * Albanian: çuditshëm
 * Arabic:
 * Armenian:
 * Bosnian: ,
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan: estrany
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Crimean Tatar: hucur
 * Croatian:, ,
 * Czech:, ,
 * Danish: underlig
 * Dutch:, , ,
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian: imelik
 * Finnish:, , ,
 * French:
 * German: fremd, seltsam, sonderbar, befremdlich
 * Greek: παράξενος (paraksenos), παράδοξος (paradoksos) , αλλόκοτος (alokotos) . περίεργος (periergos)
 * Hebrew:
 * Hungarian:, ,


 * Indonesian:
 * Irish: aisteach, ait
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese:, 奇妙な
 * Korean: 이상한 (isanghan)
 * Kurdish:
 * Kurmanji: ecêb, seyr, sosret, mat
 * Sorani: عه‌نتیکه, سه‌یر
 * Norwegian:, ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:, , , nenatural
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic:, ,
 * Serbian:
 * Cyrillic: необичан, чудан
 * Roman: neobičan, čudan
 * Spanish:, raro
 * Swedish:, ,
 * Telugu: వింత (vinta), విచిత్రమైన (vichitramaina)
 * Turkish:, ,
 * West Frisian: frjemd, frjemde, nuver, nuvere


 * Armenian:
 * Croatian: ,
 * Czech:, neznámý
 * Finnish: ,
 * French: ,


 * Hungarian: ,
 * Norwegian: ukjent
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Spanish: desconocido
 * Telugu: వింత (vinta)


 * Finnish:
 * German:
 * Italian:
 * Norwegian:


 * Polish:
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:

Anagrams

 * garnets

Adverb
strange


 * 1) strangely