strange
strange Lexical Profile
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• adjective
Unusual or surprising in a way that is unsettling, unexpected, or difficult to understand.
"We heard a strange noise coming from the attic late at night."
Not previously visited, seen, or encountered; unfamiliar or alien.
"It can be intimidating to navigate a strange city without a map."
Feeling slightly ill, dizzy, uneasy, or not entirely oneself.
"She began to feel strange after standing in the hot sun for an hour."
In particle physics, denoting a specific flavor of quark or a subatomic particle having a non-zero strangeness quantum number.
"A kaon is a meson composed of one strange quark or antiquark bound with an up or down quark."
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Word Origin & Etymology
Borrowed in Middle English from Old French 'estrange' (foreign, alien, unusual), which derives from Latin 'extraneus' (external, foreign), from 'extra' (outside).