OXFORD 9000
📚 adj • entry_id 5586

strange

/stɹeɪnd͡ʒ/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
anormal • bizarro • cuático • extraño • raro
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?
desconocido
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.
extraño
Having the quantum mechanical property of strangeness.
A strange quark is electrically charged, carrying an amount -1/3, as does the down quark.
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