strange

  • 41strange — adjective /streɪndʒ/ a) Not normal; odd, unusual, surprising, out of the ordinary. He thought it strange that his girlfriend wore shorts in the winter. b) Unfamiliar, not yet part of ones experience …

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  • 42strange — Synonyms and related words: aberrant, able, abnormal, absurd, alien, amazing, anomalous, apart, astonishing, astounding, atypical, barbarian, barbaric, barbarous, beguiling, bereft of reason, bewildering, bizarre, brainsick, crackbrained, cracked …

    Moby Thesaurus

  • 43strange — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. unusual, odd, unfamiliar; queer, fantastic; alien, foreign, extraneous, outlandish, exotic; eccentric, mysterious. See unconformity. Ant., normal, usual, common. II (Roget s IV) modif. 1. [Little… …

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  • 44strange — [13] The etymological notion underlying strange is of being ‘beyond the usual bounds or boundaries’. This evolved into ‘foreign’ (which survives in the closely related French étrange) and ‘odd’. The word came via Old French estrange from Latin… …

    The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins

  • 45strange — adjective 1) strange things have been happening Syn: unusual, odd, curious, peculiar, funny, bizarre, weird, uncanny, anomalous; informal fishy 2) visiting a strange house Syn: unfamiliar …

    Synonyms and antonyms dictionary

  • 46strange — see adversity makes strange bedfellows politics makes strange bedfellows fact is stranger than fiction truth is stranger than fiction …

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  • 47strange — [13] The etymological notion underlying strange is of being ‘beyond the usual bounds or boundaries’. This evolved into ‘foreign’ (which survives in the closely related French étrange) and ‘odd’. The word came via Old French estrange from Latin… …

    Word origins

  • 48strange — See funny. See funny, strange, peculiar …

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  • 49strange to/at/in — archaic unaccustomed to or unfamiliar with. → strange …

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  • 50Strange — Strạn|ge, die; , n (schweizerisch neben Strang); eine Strange Garn, Wolle …

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