strange

Definition for strange

adjective as in deviating, unfamiliar

Strongest matches

astonishing, bizarre, curious, different, extraordinary, fantastic, funny, new, odd, offbeat, outlandish, peculiar, rare, remarkable, unusual, weird, wonderful

Strong match

eldritch

Weak matches

aberrant, abnormal, astounding, atypical, eccentric, erratic, exceptional, far-out, idiosyncratic, ignorant, inexperienced, irregular, marvelous, mystifying, newfangled, oddball, off, out-of-the-way, perplexing, quaint, singular, unaccountable, unaccustomed, uncanny, uncommon, unheard of, unseasoned

adjective as in exotic, foreign

Strongest matches

alien, awkward, new, romantic, unfamiliar

Weak matches

apart, detached, external, faraway, irrelevant, isolated, lost, novel, out of place, outside, remote, romanesque, unexplored, unknown, unrelated, untried

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Pioneertown has always been a strange, hybrid place: half fake, half real.

From Los Angeles Times

"I find it strange that people come to protest. Those who come here are people whose lives are in danger or who face serious difficulties," the Iraqi Kurd told us.

From BBC

It was put to him that what he wrote was insulting and violent, and he agreed, but said: "Women have a right to defend themselves from strange men in their spaces."

From BBC

As if the line weren’t already strange and abrupt, the sentence is even more nonsensical out of context.

From Salon

The owner told deputies no one should be living there and they had heard "strange noises" coming from the space before.

From BBC

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