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strangest

strangest is the superlative form of strange.

Meaning of strange

Adjective

strange (comparative stranger, superlative strangest)

  1. 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.
  2. Unfamiliar, not yet part of one's experience.
    • I moved to a strange town when I was ten.
    Antonyms:
    familiar, known
  3. (slang, genitals, etc) 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 […]2006, Black Butch Malone, Streetwise: N.Y. YO, AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 47
  4. (particle) Having the quantum mechanical property of strangeness.
    • A strange quark is electrically charged, carrying an amount -1/3, as does the down quark.2004, Frank Close, Particle Physics: A Very Short Introduction, Oxford, page 93
  5. Of an attractor: having a fractal structure.
  6. (obsolete) 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...a. 1569 (date written), Roger Ascham, edited by Margaret Ascham, The Scholemaster: Or Plaine and Perfite Way of Teaching Children, to Vnderstand, Write, and Speake, the Latin Tong, […], London: […]...

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Synonyms of strangest

Questions about strangest

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Strangest is the superlative form of strange.

Words near strangest in the dictionary

  1. strangers
  2. strangers in the night
  3. strangership
  4. strangerwise
  5. stranges
  6. strangest
  7. Strangeway
  8. Strangeways
  9. Strangford
  10. Strangford Lough
  11. strangification

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