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say it: straynj
strange is an adjective meaning "being definitely out of the ordinary and unexpected; slightly odd or even a bit weird". It carries 3 recorded senses.
not known before
“used many strange words”
“saw many strange faces in the crowd”
“don't let anyone unknown into the house”
relating to or originating in or characteristic of another place or part of the world
“foreign nations”
“a foreign accent”
“on business in a foreign city”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for strange come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.