Strange
[streɪn(d)ʒ] or [strendʒ]
Definition
(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' .
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Definition
(superl.) Belonging to another country; foreign.
(superl.) Of or pertaining to others; not one's own; not pertaining to one's self; not domestic.
(superl.) Not before known, heard, or seen; new.
(superl.) Not according to the common way; novel; odd; unusual; irregular; extraordinary; unnatural; queer.
(superl.) Reserved; distant in deportment.
(superl.) Backward; slow.
(superl.) Not familiar; unaccustomed; inexperienced.
(adv.) Strangely.
(v. t.) To alienate; to estrange.
(v. i.) To be estranged or alienated.
(v. i.) To wonder; to be astonished.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. Foreign, outlandish, exotic, alien, not native, not domestic, from abroad.[2]. New, novel, unusual, uncommon, unnatural, abnormal, anomalous, singular, rare, irregular, extraordinary, wonderful, inexplicable, exceptional, unique, PRETERNATURAL, unheard of, out of the way.[3]. Odd, eccentric, queer, peculiar, BIZARRE.
Editor: Stu
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Foreign, alien, exotic, unfamiliar, unusual, odd, irregular, abnormal,exceptional, surprising, wonderful, marvellous, astonishing, uncommon,peculiar
ANT:Home, domestic, familiar, usual, ordinary, common, regular, customary,commonplace, unsurprising, universal, general
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Definition
adj. foreign: belonging to another country: not formerly known heard or seen: not domestic: new: causing surprise or curiosity marvellous: unusual odd: estranged reserved: unacquainted with unversed: not lawfully belonging to one.—adv. Strange′ly.—ns. Strange′ness; Strān′ger a foreigner: one from homed: one unknown or unacquainted: a guest or visitor: one not admitted to communion or fellowship: a popular premonition of the coming of a visitor by a bit of stalk in a cup of tea guttering in a candle &c.—Strange woman a whore.
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Examples
- It sent her into a strange, convulsed anger, to be thwarted. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Being delivered into the charge of the ma?tresse, I was led through a long narrow passage into a foreign kitchen, very clean but very strange. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Strange shipping became more frequent, passing the Japanese headlands; sometimes ships were wrecked and sailors brought ashore. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- But Gerald could feel a strange hostility to himself, in the air. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- The Germans were doubled up with laughter, hearing his strange droll words, his droll phrases of dialect. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- After this strange speech, she lay silent for some time. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- A twilight calm of happiness then succeeding to their radiant noon, they remained at peace, until a strange voice in the room startled them both. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- She felt strange and inevitable, as if she were centred upon the pivot of all existence, there was no further reality. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- I must part with you for my whole life: I must begin a new existence among strange faces and strange scenes. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Joe mentioned it now, and the strange man called him by it. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- I am a stranger in London. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- You know, I'm a stranger here, so perhaps I'm not so quick at understanding what you mean as if I'd lived all my life at Milton. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- The stranger insisted on making Mr. Godfrey precede him; Mr. Godfrey said a few civil words; they bowed, and parted in the street. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- I now ventured to turn my head back, believing myself at a safe distance from the stranger. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- But would any of your guardians think or speak of any other guardian as a stranger? Plato. The Republic.
- So have I,' said the stranger. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- I am a stranger. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- These cries redoubled in intensity as the stranger approached her bed; when he took her up, Let alone! Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- We want no stranger here. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- If after that you are taken, you will then be a prize; but now you are only a stranger, and have a stranger's right to safety and protection. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- They have the strangest knack of startling you with unpleasant surprises. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Those eyes had looked on the visits of a certain ghost--had long waited the comings and goings of that strangest spectre, Hypochondria. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Here it is the shift from deadliness to normal family life that is the strangest, Robert Jordan thought. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Pablo had a good hand in the dark and feeling it gave Robert Jordan the strangest feeling he had felt that morning. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- But the strangest part of it all is the wonderful creature who rescued us. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- His whole material and immaterial life is wonderfully strange; his death, the strangest thing of all. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- They say, too, that Clym Yeobright is become a real perusing man, with the strangest notions about things. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- At Pisa we climbed up to the top of the strangest structure the world has any knowledge of--the Leaning Tower. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- In Pericles there was mingled in the strangest fashion political ability with a real living passion for deep and high and beautiful things. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- In an arm-chair, with an elbow resting on the table and her head leaning on that hand, sat the strangest lady I have ever seen, or shall ever see. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
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