strange
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
strange/streɪnʤ/
▶adjective
- 1 unusual or surprising.
■ slightly or undefinably unwell or ill at ease.
- 2 not previously visited, seen, or encountered.
■ (strange to/at/in) archaic unaccustomed to or unfamiliar with.
- 3 Physics having a non-zero value for strangeness.
– phrases
strange to say (or tell) it is surprising or unusual that.
strange to say (or tell) it is surprising or unusual that.
– derivatives
strangely adverb.
strangely adverb.
– origin ME: shortening of OFr. estrange, from L. extraneus ‘external, strange’.
'strange' also found in these Oxford entries:
adverbial
- axenic
- bedfellow
- bizarre
- bizarrerie
- bogus
- contortionist
- contraption
- cranky
- cult
- curious
- defamiliarize
- device
- droll
- eccentric
- eerie
- faraway
- fish
- flavour
- freaky
- funny
- hoodoo
- Jekyll
- kooky
- new
- nice
- odd
- oddball
- oddity
- peculiar
- queer
- quirk
- quizzical
- random
- rejoice
- seldom
- singular
- strange attractor
- strangeness
- stranger
- uncanny
- weird
- weirdo
- xeno-
- xenon
