strange

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English

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”). Displaced native Middle English selcouth and uncouth, from Old English seldcūþ and uncūþ.

Pronunciation

• enPR: strānj; IPA^(key): /stɹeɪnd͡ʒ/
• Rhymes: -eɪndʒ
• Hyphenation: strange

Adjective

strange (comparative stranger, superlative strangest)

1. Not normal; odd, unusual, surprising, out of the ordinary, especially if slightly uncomfortable.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:strange

   Antonyms: everyday, normal, (especially US) regular, standard, usual
2. Unfamiliar, not yet part of one's experience.

   Synonyms: new, unfamiliar, unknown; see also Thesaurus:unknown

   Antonyms: familiar, known
3. (slang, of sex, genitals, etc) Outside of one's current relationship; unfamiliar.
4. (particle physics) Having the quantum mechanical property of strangeness.

   Hypernym: flavor
5. (mathematics) Of an attractor: having a fractal structure.
6. (obsolete) Belonging to another country; foreign.

   Synonyms: alien, outlandish; see also Thesaurus:foreign
7. (obsolete) Reserved; distant in deportment.

   Synonyms: distant, standoffish; see also Thesaurus:aloof
8. (obsolete) Backward; slow.
9. (obsolete) Not familiar; unaccustomed; inexperienced.

   Synonyms: green, unversed; see also Thesaurus:inexperienced
10. (law) Not belonging to one.

Derived terms

Related terms

• estrange, estranged
• stranger

Translations

Verb

strange (third-person singular simple present stranges, present participle stranging, simple past and past participle stranged)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To alienate; to estrange.
2. (obsolete, intransitive) To be estranged or alienated.
3. (obsolete, intransitive) To wonder; to be astonished at (something).

Derived terms

• bestrange

Noun

strange (countable and uncountable, plural stranges)

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

Derived terms

• get some strange
• tame strange

Anagrams

• Sargent, Stagner, Stanger, argents, garnets, gerants, nagster, rangest

Esperanto

Etymology

stranga (“strange”) +‎ -e

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈstranɡe]
• Rhymes: -anɡe
• Hyphenation: stran‧ge

Adverb

strange

1. strangely

Middle English

Adjective

strange

1. Alternative form of straunge

Old English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈstrɑnɡe/, [ˈstrɑŋɡe]

Adjective

strange

1. Inflected form of strang

West Flemish

Noun

strange n

1. beach