strange

Speech parts

1. strange - Noun

2. strange - Adjective

3. strange - Verb

5. strange - Adjective Satellite

6. Strange - Proper noun

Meaning

Belonging to another country; foreign.

Of or pertaining to others; not one's own; not pertaining to one's self; not domestic.

Not before known, heard, or seen; new.

Not according to the common way; novel; odd; unusual; irregular; extraordinary; unnatural; queer.

Reserved; distant in deportment.

Backward; slow.

Not familiar; unaccustomed; inexperienced.

Strangely.

To alienate; to estrange.

To be estranged or alienated.

To wonder; to be astonished.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

foreign unusual queer uncommon eccentric outlandish odd weird unknown singular irregular alien mysterious abnormal peculiar
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Antonyms

familiar indian aboriginal natal marine home
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Phrases with the word

strange to say like a cat in a strange garret like strange bulldogs strange to tell strange particle mentally strange

Anagrams

Sargent angster garnets nagster Stagner Stanger

Examples

Conscience is a strange thing. It torments not the one it should, but the one who has it. Source: Internet

Is it not strange that mankind should so willingly battle for religion and so unwillingly live according to its precepts? Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

There is nothing so powerful as truth, and often nothing so strange. Daniel Webster

Politics makes strange bedfellows. American Proverb

The savage ox grows tame on strange ground. Portuguese Proverb

A strange glass is emptied in one draught; your own glass not even in ten. Latvian Proverb

Close letter words and terms

strandloper strandwolf strang strange antiquark strange attractor strange bedfellow