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STRANGE
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Not known before
Example:
don't let anyone unknown into the house
Synonyms:
strange; unknown
Classified under:
Similar:
unfamiliar (not known or well known)
Derivation:
strangeness (unusualness as a consequence of not being well known)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Being definitely out of the ordinary and unexpected; slightly odd or even a bit weird
Example:
what a strange sense of humor she has
Synonyms:
strange; unusual
Classified under:
Similar:
weird (strikingly odd or unusual)
quaint (very strange or unusual; odd or even incongruous in character or appearance)
quaint (strange in an interesting or pleasing way)
other (very unusual; different in character or quality from the normal or expected)
oddish (somewhat strange)
gothic (characterized by gloom and mystery and the grotesque)
freaky (strange and somewhat frightening)
exotic (strikingly strange or unusual)
eerie; eery (inspiring a feeling of fear; strange and frightening)
curious; funny; odd; peculiar; queer; rum; rummy; singular (beyond or deviating from the usual or expected)
crazy (bizarre or fantastic)
antic; fantastic; fantastical; grotesque (ludicrously odd)
Antonym:
familiar (within normal everyday experience; common and ordinary; not strange)
Derivation:
strangeness (unusualness as a consequence of not being well known)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Relating to or originating in or characteristic of another place or part of the world
Example:
on business in a foreign city
Synonyms:
foreign; strange
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
adventive (not native and not fully established; locally or temporarily naturalized)
alien; exotic (being or from or characteristic of another place or part of the world)
nonnative (of plants or animals originating in a part of the world other than where they are growing)
established; naturalized (introduced from another region and persisting without cultivation)
foreign-born; nonnative (of persons born in another area or country than that lived in)
imported (used of especially merchandise brought from a foreign source)
tramontane (being or coming from another country)
unnaturalised; unnaturalized (not having acquired citizenship)
Attribute:
strangeness; unfamiliarity (unusualness as a consequence of not being well known)
curiousness; foreignness; strangeness (the quality of being alien or not native)
Context examples:
Mr. Bhaer sat looking about him with the air of a traveler who knocks at a strange door, and when it opens, finds himself at home.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
But they still may feel strange at first.
(Dentures, NIH: National Institute on Aging)
Observations by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope reveal magnesium and iron gas streaming from the strange world outside our solar system known as WASP-121b.
(Hubble Uncovers a ‘Heavy Metal’ Exoplanet Shaped Like a Football, NASA)
And he has strange things to tell of the way of the white man, for he has seen much of the white man and done a great travel into the white man's country.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
Ah, she replied, the way is so long, and what shall I do in a strange land where I am unknown?
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
It seemed strange talk for a wedding-morning, but what has happened since gives a meaning to it.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Yes, I know, said Utterson; I know it must seem strange.
(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
I was very uneasy and alarmed, as you may fancy, and it rather added to my fears to observe that the stranger was certainly frightened himself.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
The stranger has gradually improved in health but is very silent and appears uneasy when anyone except myself enters his cabin.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
How strange this is! what can be the meaning of it!
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
