straung

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.

   Antonyms:

   everyday, normal, regular, standard, usual

2. Unfamiliar, not yet part of one's experience.
   • I moved to a strange town when I was ten.

   Synonyms:

   new, unfamiliar, unknown, ignote, knownless, obscure, unascertained, unapprehended, undiscovered, unexplained

   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: […]...

   Synonyms:

   alien, outlandish, acquired, additional, adventitious, ascititious, extraneous, foreign, fremd, intrusive

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