strange

Meanings

Plural: stranges

Adjective

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"
relating to or originating in or characteristic of another place or part of the world

Adjective Satellite

not known before
- "used many strange words"
- "saw many strange faces in the crowd"

Adj

Not normal; odd, unusual, surprising, out of the ordinary, often with a negative connotation.
Unfamiliar, not yet part of one's experience.
Outside of one's current relationship; unfamiliar.
Having the quantum mechanical property of strangeness.
Of an attractor: having a fractal structure.
Belonging to another country; foreign.
Reserved; distant in deportment.
Backward; slow.
Not familiar; unaccustomed; inexperienced.
Not belonging to one.

Verb

To alienate; to estrange.
To be estranged or alienated.
To wonder; to be astonished at (something).

Noun

Sex outside of one's current relationship.
A strange quark.

Origin / 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”). Largely displaced native fremd, selcouth, and uncouth, from Old English fremede, seldcūþ, and uncūþ.

Synonyms

aberrant, abnormal, acquired, additional, adventitious, alien, aloof, anomalous, as queer as Dick's hatband, ascititious, bizarre, callow, cool, curious, deviant, discrepant, distant, eerie, eldritch, errant, exceptional, experienceless, extraneous, extraordinary, fey, forby, foreign, freak, freakish, freaky, fremd, fresh, frosty, funny, green, hankty, hard-to-get, heteroclite, hinky, ignote, incongruitous, incongruous, inexperienced, intrusive, irregular, knownless, kooky, monstrous, new, nonstandard, obscure, odd, offish, out of the ordinary, outlandish, outré, peculiar, pup, quaint, queer, queer as a clockwork orange, queer as a coot, queer as a nine bob note, queer as a three dollar bill, queer as Dick's hatband, quiet, rare, raw, remote, reserved, rum, rummy, selcouth, seld, singular, standoffish, strange, supplemental, thorny, touch-me-not-ish, trippy, unapprehended, unapproachable, unascertained, unbending, uncanny, uncommon, unconventional, undemonstrative, undiscovered, unearthly, unexpected, unexperienced, unexplained, unfamiliar, unimpressionable, uninvestigated, uninvolved, unknown, unpracticed, unreasonable, unrecognized, unrevealed, unseasoned, unusual, unversed, unwonted, weird, weirdsome, yampy

Antonyms

common, everyday, familiar, inevitable, intermediate, known, moderate, native, normal, regular, standard, usual

Scrabble Score: 8

strange is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL word
strange is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
strange is a valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 10

strange is a valid Words With Friends word