strange

adjective stranger · strangest

1. 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.

   Opposite: everyday, normal, regular, standard, usual

2. Unfamiliar, not yet part of one's experience. I moved to a strange town when I was ten.

   Similar: new, unfamiliar, unknown, ignote, knownless, strange, obscure, unascertained, unapprehended, undiscovered, unexplained, uninvestigated · Opposite: familiar, known

3. slang, of sex Outside of one's current relationship; unfamiliar. 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 […]
4. particle Having the quantum mechanical property of strangeness. A strange quark is electrically charged, carrying an amount -1/3, as does the down quark.
5. Of an attractor: having a fractal structure.
6. obsolete Belonging to another country; foreign. 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, an

   Similar: alien, outlandish, acquired, additional, adventitious, ascititious, extraneous, foreign, fremd, intrusive, strange, supplemental

7. obsolete Reserved; distant in deportment. Good signiors both, when shall we laugh? say, when? / You grow exceeding strange: must it be so?

   Similar: distant, standoffish, aloof, cool, frosty, hankty, hard-to-get, offish, quiet, remote, strange, thorny

8. obsolete Backward; slow. 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.
9. obsolete Not familiar; unaccustomed; inexperienced. I know thee well; / But in thy fortunes am unlearn’d and strange.

   Similar: green, unversed, callow, experienceless, inexperienced, unexperienced, fresh, new, punk, pup, raw, strange

10. Not belonging to one.

Similar: 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 · Opposite: common, familiar, inevitable, intermediate, moderate, normal

verb stranges · stranging · stranged

1. obsolete, transitive To alienate; to estrange.
2. intransitive, obsolete To be estranged or alienated.
3. intransitive, obsolete To wonder; to be astonished at (something). [I]f the world and motion were not from Eternity, then God was Idle; were all the Aſſertions of Ariſtotle, which Theology pronounceth impieties. Which yet we need not ſtrange at from one, of whom a Father ſaith, Nec Deum coluit nec curavit [he neither worshipped nor cared for God]: […]

noun stranges

1. slang, uncountable Sex outside of one's current relationship. 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.
2. countable, particle A strange quark.

proper noun

1. A surname.
2. A community in King township, Ontario, Canada, named after Frederick William Strange.