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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
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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
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apart, detached, external, faraway, irrelevant, isolated, lost, novel, out of place, outside, remote, romanesque, unexplored, unknown, unrelated, untried
Example Sentences
The story goes that a young hunter from Shao once met a strange woman with a single breast near the river named Awon.
The resulting 1978 masterpiece—sublimely detailed and marvelously strange in its presentation of unseen ridges, troughs and endless plains—reflected the newly established theories of plate tectonics and continental drift.
At the end of the encounter, “something strange happens,” Ning says.
“Coming off a crowded plane at a strange airport, nothing beats seeing someone holding a sign with your name on it,” he says.
Nobody knew quite what to think of the strange creature in their midst.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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