strange

About 36.20 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. adjective 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.

2. adjective Unfamiliar, not yet part of one's experience.

   I moved to a strange town when I was ten.

3. adjective Outside of one's current relationship; unfamiliar.
4. adjective Having the quantum mechanical property of strangeness.
5. adjective Of an attractor: having a fractal structure.
6. adjective Belonging to another country; foreign.
7. adjective Reserved; distant in deportment.
8. adjective Backward; slow.

Similar words

peculiar weird odd unusual freaky eerie eery grotesque quaint exotic

Often followed by

and to that as thing things land in way

Word family

strangely stranger stranges strangest