STRANGE meaning: Unusual, not typical or expected

We found 35 dictionaries that define the word strange:

General (28 matching dictionaries)

strange: Merriam-Webster.com
strange: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
strange: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
strange: Collins English Dictionary
strange: Vocabulary.com
Strange, strange: Wordnik
strange: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
Strange, strange: Wiktionary
strange: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
strange: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
strange: Infoplease Dictionary
strange: Dictionary.com
strange: Online Etymology Dictionary
strange: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
Strange (Celeste song), Strange (En Vogue song), Strange (Gabrielle Aplin song), Strange (TV series), Strange (Wet Wet Wet song), Strange (surname), Strange (video), Strange, The Strange: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
Strange: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
strange: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
strange: Rhymezone
strange: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
strange: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
Strange: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
strange: Free Dictionary
strange: Mnemonic Dictionary
Strange, strange: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
strange: Dictionary/thesaurus
strange: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (1 matching dictionary)

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Strange (comics), Strange (disambiguation), strange: Legal dictionary

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Strange (comics), Strange (disambiguation), strange: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)

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Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)

strange: Idioms

Science (1 matching dictionary)

Strange: Extragalactic Astronomy

Slang (1 matching dictionary)

strange, strange, strange: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

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Definitions from Wiktionary (

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▸ adjective:  Not normal; odd, unusual, surprising, out of the ordinary.
▸ adjective:  Unfamiliar, not yet part of one's experience.
▸ adjective:  (slang, of sex, genitals, etc) Outside of one's current relationship; unfamiliar.
▸ adjective:  (particle physics) Having the quantum mechanical property of strangeness.
▸ adjective:  (mathematics) Of an attractor: having a fractal structure.
▸ adjective:  (obsolete) Belonging to another country; foreign.
▸ adjective:  (obsolete) Reserved; distant in deportment.
▸ adjective:  (obsolete) Backward; slow.
▸ adjective:  (obsolete) Not familiar; unaccustomed; inexperienced.
▸ adjective:  (law) Not belonging to one.
▸ verb:  (obsolete, transitive) To alienate; to estrange.
▸ verb:  (obsolete, intransitive) To be estranged or alienated.
▸ verb:  (obsolete, intransitive) To wonder; to be astonished at (something).
▸ noun:  (slang, uncountable) Sex outside of one's current relationship.
▸ noun:  (particle physics, countable) A strange quark.
▸ noun:  A surname.
▸ noun:  A community in King township, Ontario, Canada, named after Frederick William Strange.

Similar:

unusual, unfamiliar, odd, unknown, peculiar, singular, weird, grotesque, exotic, uneasy, more...

Opposite:

familiar, normal, ordinary, conventional, typical

Phrases:

strange woman, Strange Behavior, strange bedfellows, strange attractors, strange attractor, more...

Adjectives:

late, young, poor, old, some, little, general, most, not, second, british

Colors:

puce, chartreuse, mauve, periwinkle, vermilion, cerulean, fuchsia, teal, ochre, amaranth

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