strange
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: law
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Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰ
Proto-Indo-European *-s
Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰs
Proto-Indo-European *-teros
Proto-Indo-European *h₁eǵʰsteros
Proto-Italic *eksteros
Latin exter
Latin extrā
Proto-Indo-European *-nós
Proto-Italic *-nos
Latin -nus
Latin -ānus
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Proto-Indo-European *-éyos
Proto-Italic *-ejos
Proto-Italic *-eos
Latin -eus
Latin -āneus
Latin extrāneusder.
Old French estrange
Anglo-Norman estraungebor.
Middle English straunge
English strange
From Middle English straunge, strange, stronge, from Old French estrange, from Latin extrāneus (“that which is on the outside”). Doublet of extraneous and estrange. Cognate with French étrange (“strange, foreign”) and Spanish extraño (“strange, foreign”). Largely displaced native fremd, selcouth, and uncouth, from Old English fremede, seldcūþ, and uncūþ.
Inflected forms:
form: stranger
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: strangest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: stranges
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Not normal; odd, unusual, surprising, out of the ordinary, often with a negative connotation.
pos: adj
examples: He thought it strange that his girlfriend wore shorts in the winter.
I do love nothing in the world so well as you: is not that strange?
Sated at length, ere long I might perceave / Strange alteration in me, to degree / Of Reason in my inward Powers, and Speech / Wanted not long, though to this shape retain’d.
When you're strange / Faces come out of the rain / When you're strange / No one remembers your name
gloss: Unfamiliar, not yet part of one's experience.
pos: adj
examples: I moved to a strange town when I was ten.
[…] here is the hand and seal of the duke: you know the character, I doubt not; and the signet is not strange to you.
'I'm sure I should have never mentioned anything of the kind to three strange gentlemen if you hadn't dragged it out of me.'
She's probably sitting there hoping a couple of strange detectives will drop in.
gloss: Outside of one's current relationship; unfamiliar.
pos: adj
tags: slang
examples: When AIDS and Herpes hit the street Talib stopped fucking with strange pussy and stray pussy. Bitches had a ways to go to match Malikah in bed anyway. With her there was that extra element of real love that heightened sex […]
Arnett might have come to Boston to eat baked beans, get some strange ass, or stick up the First New England Trust, the motive mattered little to him—whatever the boss wanted to do was jake-okay by him. Besides, being on overtime for ...
"You just need some strange dick, that's all.” Maureen rolled her eyes and gave her friend an exasperated look. “I'm a married woman, Catty.” “Uh-huh! I knew somethin' like this was goin' to happen after you married Mel."
The future mother of his child was not going out and getting laid by some strange dick. He'd tie her to his bed before he let that happen.
gloss: Having the quantum mechanical property of strangeness.
pos: adj
tags: particle
examples: A strange quark is electrically charged, carrying an amount -1/3, as does the down quark.
gloss: Of an attractor: having a fractal structure.
pos: adj
gloss: Belonging to another country; foreign.
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
examples: I take goyng thither [to Italy], and liuing there, for a yonge ientleman, that doth not goe vnder the kepe and garde of such a man, as both, by wisedome can, and authoritie dare rewle him, to be meruelous dangerous […] not bicause I do contemne, either the knowledge of strange and diuerse tonges, and namelie the Italian tonge […] or else bicause I do despise, the learning that is gotten […]
[…] one of the strange queen’s lords.
How shall we sing the Lords song: in a strange land?
I could not see the [Russian] Embassador in his coach; but his attendants in their habits and fur caps very handsome, comely men […] But Lord! to see the absurd nature of Englishmen, that cannot forbear laughing and jeering at every thing that looks strange.
gloss: Reserved; distant in deportment.
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
examples: Good signiors both, when shall we laugh? say, when? / You grow exceeding strange: must it be so?
She may be strange and shy at first, but will soon learn to love thee!
gloss: Backward; slow.
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
examples: That to his name your barrenneſſe adds rule; / VVho louing the effect, vvould not be ſtrange / In fauoring the cause; looke on the profit, / And gaine vvill quickly point the miſchiefe out.
gloss: Not familiar; unaccustomed; inexperienced.
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
examples: I know thee well; / But in thy fortunes am unlearn’d and strange.
gloss: Not belonging to one.
pos: adj
gloss: Sex outside of one's current relationship.
pos: noun
tags: slang
uncountable
examples: It was a bar by license, but in hiring practice it became an intergalactic smorgasbord of xenosexual delights, females of fancy species serving drinks and offering cultural exchange to human males seeking some strange.
All he has to do is walk into a bar, and he can get some Strange.'” “Oh yeah, Tom,” I mutter, “that's exactly how it was, every Saturday night. Nothing but Strange. Up here too.”
gloss: A strange quark.
pos: noun
tags: countable
particle
Synonyms: aberrant
abnormal
alien
anomalous
as queer as Dick's hatband
bizarre
booky
curious
deviant
discrepant
eerie
eldritch
errant
exceptional
extraordinary
fey
forby
freak
freakish
freaky
fremd
funny
heteroclite
hinky
incongruous
incongruitous
irregular
kooky
monstrous
nonstandard
odd
outlandish
out of the ordinary
outré
peculiar
quaint
queer
queer as a clockwork orange
queer as a nine bob note
queer as a three dollar bill
queer as a coot
queer as Dick's hatband
rare
rum
rummy
selcouth
seld
singular
strange
trippy
uncanny
uncommon
uncouth
unconventional
unearthly
unexpected
unreasonable
unusual
unwonted
weird
weirdsome
yampy
Antonyms: common
familiar
inevitable
intermediate
moderate
normal
Related words: estrange
estranged
stranger
outlier
there's nowt so queer as folk
crooked
Derived words: bestrange
fact is stranger than fiction
like a cat in a strange garret
make strange
multistrange
nonstrange
sstrange
sstrange squark
strange as it may seem
strange-ass
strange bedfellow
strange bird
strange fruit
strange-horned toad
strangelet
strangeling
strangely
strange matter
strange minds think alike
strangen
strangeness
strangeon
strangeonium
strange quark
strange star
strange to say
strange woman
strangification
strangify
truth is stranger than fiction
unstrange
get some strange
tame strange
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