strange

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   not known before

   used many strange words

2. 2
   adj

   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.

3. 3
   adj

   Unfamiliar, not yet part of one's experience.

   I moved to a strange town when I was ten.

4. 4
   adj

   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 […]

5. 5
   adj

   Having the quantum mechanical property of strangeness.

   A strange quark is electrically charged, carrying an amount -1/3, as does the down quark.

6. 6
   adj

   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, and namelie the Italian tonge […] or else bicause I do despise, the learning that is gotten […]

7. 7
   adj

   Reserved; distant in deportment.

   Good signiors both, when shall we laugh? say, when? / You grow exceeding strange: must it be so?

8. 8
   adj

   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.

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰ Proto-Indo-European *-s Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰs Proto-Indo-European *-teros Proto-Indo-European *h₁eǵʰsteros Proto-Italic *eksteros Latin exter Latin extrā Proto-Indo-European *-nós Proto-Italic *-nos Latin -nus Latin -ānus Proto-Italic *-eos Latin -eus Latin -āneus Latin extrāneusder. Old French estrange Anglo-Norman estraungebor. Middle English straunge English strange 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 Fr…