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strange

adj
/stɹeɪnd͡ʒ/

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-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Indo-European *-éyos Proto-Italic *-ejos 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 French étrange (“strange, foreign”) and Spanish extraño (“strange, foreign”). Largely displaced native fremd, selcouth, and uncouth, from Old English fremede, seldcūþ, and uncūþ.

  1. derived from extrāneus — “that which is on the outside”
  2. derived from estrange
  3. inherited from straunge

Definitions

  1. Not normal

    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.
    • I do love nothing in the world so well as you: is not that strange?
    • Sated at length, ere long I might perceave / Strange alteration in me, to degree / Of Reason in my inward Powers, and Speech / Wanted not long, though to this shape retain’d.

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

    • I moved to a strange town when I was ten.
    • […] here is the hand and seal of the duke: you know the character, I doubt not; and the signet is not strange to you.
    • 'I'm sure I should have never mentioned anything of the kind to three strange gentlemen if you hadn't dragged it out of me.'

  3. Outside of one's current relationship

    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 […]
    • Arnett might have come to Boston to eat baked beans, get some strange ass, or stick up the First New England Trust, the motive mattered little to him—whatever the boss wanted to do was jake-okay by him. Besides, being on overtime for ...
    • "You just need some strange dick, that's all.” Maureen rolled her eyes and gave her friend an exasperated look. “I'm a married woman, Catty.” “Uh-huh! I knew somethin' like this was goin' to happen after you married Mel."
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    1. Having the quantum mechanical property of strangeness.

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

    2. Of an attractor

      Of an attractor: having a fractal structure.

    3. Belonging to another country

      Belonging to another country; foreign.

      • […] one of the strange queen’s lords.
      • How shall we sing the Lords song: in a strange land?

    4. Reserved

      Reserved; distant in deportment.

      • Good signiors both, when shall we laugh? say, when? / You grow exceeding strange: must it be so?
      • She may be strange and shy at first, but will soon learn to love thee!

    5. Backward

      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.

    6. Not familiar

      Not familiar; unaccustomed; inexperienced.

      • I know thee well; / But in thy fortunes am unlearn’d and strange.

    7. Not belonging to one.

    8. To alienate

      To alienate; to estrange.

    9. To be estranged or alienated.

    10. To wonder

      To wonder; to be astonished at (something).

    11. Sex outside of one's current relationship.

      • It was a bar by license, but in hiring practice it became an intergalactic smorgasbord of xenosexual delights, females of fancy species serving drinks and offering cultural exchange to human males seeking some strange.
      • All he has to do is walk into a bar, and he can get some Strange.'” “Oh yeah, Tom,” I mutter, “that's exactly how it was, every Saturday night. Nothing but Strange. Up here too.”

    12. A strange quark.

    13. A surname.

    14. A community in King township, Ontario, Canada, named after Frederick William Strange.

The neighborhood

Derived

bestrange, fact is stranger than fiction, like a cat in a strange garret, make strange, multistrange, nonstrange, sstrange, sstrange squark, strange as it may seem, strange-ass, strange bedfellow, strange bird, strange fruit, strange-horned toad, strangelet, strangeling, strangely, strange matter, strange minds think alike, strangen, strangeness, strangeon, strangeonium, strange quark, strange star, strange to say, strange woman, strangification, strangify, truth is stranger than fiction, unstrange, get some strange, tame strange

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at strange. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

01strange02odd03rest04relaxation05healthy06conducive07encourage08courage09frailty10foible

A definitional loop anchored at strange. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

10 hops · closes at strange

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA