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Noun: stranger streyn-ju(r)- Anyone who does not belong in the environment in which they are found
- alien, unknown - An individual that one is not acquainted with
Adjective: strange (stranger,strangest) streynj- Not known before
"used many strange words"; "saw many strange faces in the crowd"; - unknown - Being definitely out of the ordinary and unexpected; slightly odd or even a bit weird
"a strange exaltation that was indefinable"; "what a strange sense of humour she has"; - unusual, oddball - Relating to or originating in or characteristic of another place or part of the world
"strange nations"; - foreign - (physics) having a strangeness quantum number
Derived forms: strangers See also: adventive, alien, antic [archaic], crazy, curious, curiousness, eerie, eery, established, exotic, fantastic, fantastical, foreign-born, foreignness, freaky [informal], funny, gothic, grotesque, imported, naturalised [Brit], naturalized, nonnative, non-native, odd, oddish, other, peculiar, quaint, queer, rum [Brit, informal], rummy [Brit, archaic, informal], singular, spooky [informal], strangeness, tramontane, unfamiliar, unfamiliarity, unnaturalised [Brit], unnaturalized, weird Type of: individual, interloper, intruder, mortal, person, somebody, someone, soul, trespasser Antonym: friend, native Encyclopedia: Stranger, Texas Strange, Richard |