strange
Not normal; odd, unusual, surprising, out of the ordinary, often with a negative connotation.
Adjective 4 meanings
Not normal; odd, unusual, surprising, out of the ordinary, often with a negative connotation.
“He thought it strange that his girlfriend wore shorts in the winter.”
Unfamiliar, not yet part of one's experience.
“I moved to a strange town when I was ten.”
Having the quantum mechanical property of strangeness.
Of an attractor: having a fractal structure.
Noun 1 meaning
A strange quark.
Etymology
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”).
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STRANGE at a glance
STRANGE has 7 letters and scores 8 points in Scrabble (S 1 + T 1 + R 1 + A 1 + N 1 + G 2 + E 1) and 10 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #2,262 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
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