Strange

Definition: Strange

Strange

Adjective

1. Being definitely out of the ordinary and unexpected; slightly odd or even a bit weird; "a strange exaltation that was indefinable"; "a strange fantastical mind"; "what a strange sense of humor she has".

2. Not known before; "used many strange words"; "saw many strange faces in the crowd"; "don't let anyone unknown into the house".

3. Being or from or characteristic of another place or part of the world; "alien customs"; "exotic plants in a greenhouse"; "moved to a strange country".

4. Not at ease or comfortable; "felt strange among so many important people".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "strange" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1050. (references)

Geography

Literature

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Strange

Discord

Troublous times; cat-and-dog life; contentiousness; Adjective: enmity; hate; Kilkenny cats; disputant; strange bedfellows.

Improbability

Rare; (infrequent); unheard of, inconceivable; unimaginable, inimaginable; incredible; more than doubtful; strange, bizarre (uncomformable).

Irrelation

Adjective: irrelative, irrespective, unrelated; arbitrary; independent, unallied; unconnected, disconnected; adrift, isolated, insular; extraneous, strange, alien, foreign, outlandish, exotic.

Ridiculousness

Adjective: ridiculous, ludicrous; comical; droll, funny, laughable, pour rire, grotesque, farcical, odd; whimsical, whimsical as a dancing bear; fanciful, fantastic, queer, rum, quizzical, quaint, bizarre; screaming; eccentric; (unconformable); strange, outlandish, out of the way, baroque, weird; awkward; (ugly).

Unconformity

Unusual, unaccustomed, uncustomary, unwonted, uncommon; rare, curious, odd, extraordinary, out of the ordinary; strange, monstrous; wonderful; unexpected, unaccountable; outre, out of the way, remarkable, noteworthy; queer, quaint, nondescript, none such, sui generis; unfashionable; fantastic, grotesque, bizarre; outlandish, exotic, tombe des nues, preternatural; denaturalized.

Wonder

Monstrous, prodigious, stupendous, marvelous; inconceivable, incredible; inimaginable, unimaginable; strange; (uncommon); passing strange.

Adverb: wonderfully; Adjective: fearfully; for a wonder, in the name of wonder; strange to say; mirabile dictu, mirabile visu; to one's great surprise.

Crosswords: Strange

Now that is a strange case (A Time to Kill; writing credit: Akiva Goldsman)

A place rich with all the strange beauty of your nighttime dreams (Seven Years in Tibet; writing credit: Becky Johnston)

This is a strange love affair (Notorious; writing credit: Ben Hecht)

Hey, I know this is a strange thing to say, but maybe Diane Court really likes Lloyd (Say Anything; writing credit: Cameron Crowe.)

That's a strange. (Lilo & Stitch; writing credit: Chris Sanders)

Isn't love strange (Isn't Life Strange; performing artist: The Moody Blues)

When your world is full of strange arrangements (The Look Of Love; performing artist: ABC)

It's so strange, I can't believe it (Falling For The First Time; performing artist: Barenaked Ladies)

The newsman said not to sit on strange toilet seats (But Anyway; performing artist: Blues Traveler)

Strange how the night moves (Night Moves; performing artist: BOB SEGER; writing credit: Bob Seger)

All say, How hard it is that we have to die -- a strange complaint to come from the mouths of people who have had to live. (references; author: Mark Twain)

What boys say to girls: Are you lost? Because it's so strange to see an angel so far from Heaven. (references; author: unknown)

It is strange how an earthquake 4,000 miles away seems less of a catastrophe than the first scratch on your new car. (references; author: unknown)

Strange strategic statistics. (references; author: unknown)

Strange (2002)

How a Strange Hero Thrice Teased an Unruly Girl (1968)

Strange Love (1966)

The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies (1963)

Strange Companion (1961)

People Are Strange (performing artist: The Doors)

Love Is Strange (performing artist: Mickey & Sylvia)

Isn't Life Strange (performing artist: The Moody Blues)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Strange Writing: Anomaly Accounts in Early Medieval China (Suny Series in Chinese Philosophy and Culture) (reference)

• Strange Creations: Aberrant Ideas of Human Origins from Ancient Astronauts to Aquatic Apes (reference)

• Dead Men Do Tell Tales: The Strange and Fascinating Cases of a Forensic Anthropologist (reference)

• A Strange Tongue: Tradition, Language, and the Appropriation of Mystical Experience in Late Fourteenth-Century England and Sixteenth-Century Spain) (reference)

• When Capone's Mob Murdered Roger Touhy: The Strange Case of "Jake the Barber" and the Kidnapping That Never Happened (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• The Strange Case of Senor Computer (reference)

• Strange Bedfellows (reference)

• UFO: The Hidden Truth - The Strange Case of Crop Circles (reference)

• The Strange Love of Martha Ivers / Kirk Douglas on Film - A Biography (reference)

• Strange Brew (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• A Strange Sort of Prayer (reference)

• Strange Beautiful Music (Sl) (Multichannel/Stereo) [SACD] (reference)

• In Their Strange White Armor (reference)

• Strange Attractor (reference)

• The Strange Idols Pattern and Other Short Stories/Ignite the Seven Cannons (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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Strange wave refraction pattern apparent in aerial photograph as swells encounter large merchant vessel. Credit: America's Coastlines.

Strange deepwater fish coming up from about 100 fathoms. Anglerfish and others. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.

A strange cartoon of animals with a balloon in flames in: "Histoire des Ballons et des Aeronautes Celebres," by Gaston Tissandier, 1887, p. 66. Library Call Number TL616 .T57 1887. Credit: Treasures of the Library.

Doctor. "See strange figures, curious fancies, hey?..." / Gray Parker. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

... Ah Lord, what mean you by this strange discourse! / [John Collier] Thos. Sanders sculp. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Freedom's immortal triumph! Finale of the Jeff Davis Die-nasty." Last scene of all, that ends this strange eventful history. Credit: Library of Congress.

"Misery acquaints a man with strange bed-fellows". Credit: Library of Congress.

As he shook hands Paul met the sorrowful liquid eyes fixed on him with strange earnestness. Credit: Library of Congress.

A kind of jealousy of her daughter for one strange moment possessed her -- jealousy of youth and love and opening life : or the evening seemed to halo and caress her. Credit: Library of Congress.

Politics and an elephant's back make strange bedfellows. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

But I thought Hooker alone might be enough to satisfy those men, who relying on him for their ecclesiastical polity, are by a strange fate carried to deny those principles upon which he builds it. (Second Treatise of Government)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Surely within his mind Strange thoughts are born, until he doubts the lore Of those old men, blind leaders of the blind, Whose kingdom is no more

It was with great astonishment, and with a strange, inexplicable dread, that as he looked, he saw this bell begin to swing

At first Ford had formed a theory to account for this strange behavior

He going home to a better world, I, likewise, was on my way homeward, when this strange light shone out.

One day, however, his strange manner appeared to make an impression upon Monsieur Madeleine

All the boys seemed to him very strange.

It was so big and so strange it frightened them

Some of the latter had already been to see me, and reported strange things of my beauty, behavior, and good sense

Moreover, I have tried it fairly, and, strange as it may seem, am satisfied that it does not agree with my constitution

Ariel (singing): Full fathom five thy father lies; Of his bones are coral made; Those are pearls that were his eyes: Nothing of him that doth fade But doth suffer a sea-change Into something rich and strange.

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Health

This strange behavior should have led to a strong suspicion of rabies. (references)

TS patients may utter strange and unacceptable sounds, words, or phrases. (references)

Stroke patients may experience pain, uncomfortable numbness, or strange sensations after a stroke. (references)

Travel

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Maintaining awareness of your surroundings and using common sense precautions appropriate to visiting a strange city will do much to reduce the risk of becoming a victim. (references)

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Strange descent

Strange

Expressions using "strange": be a stranger in a strange land ♦ find strange ♦ i find it strange ♦ passing strange ♦ sound strange ♦ strange bedfellows ♦ Strange Creek ♦ strange fellow ♦ strange fish ♦ strange habit ♦ strange particle ♦ strange quark ♦ strange sail ♦ strange story ♦ strange talk ♦ strange to ♦ strange to say ♦ strange woman ♦ To make it strange ♦ To make one's self strange ♦ To make strange. Additional references.

Beginning with "strange": strange-attractor, strange-looking, strange-shaped, strange-smelling, strange-sounding, strange-style, strange-tasting.

Ending with "strange": daylight-strange, half-strange, just-slightly-strange.

Afrikaans

vreemd (alien, foreign), eienaardig (odd, peculiar, typical). (various references)

Albanian

i pazakonshëm (new, object, out, rare, singular, uncommon, unwonted), i përmbajtur (aloof, composed, continent, controlled, cool-headed, decent, demure, discreet, even tempered, modest, passionless, restrained, sedate, self-collected, sober minded, staid, stand off, temperate, unaffable, undemonstrative), i huaj (alien, exotic, extern, external, extraneous, foreign, foreigner, gringo, interlude, outlandish, outside, oversea, overseas, peregrine, stranger, tramontane), i habitshëm (amazing, astonishing, fabulous, incredible, marvellous, marvelous, oddish, portentous, striking, unusual, wonderful), i çuditshëm (bizarre, cranky, curious, dark, eccentric, electric, erratic, extraordinary, fanciful, fantastic, fantastical, frabjous, freak, freakish, funny, grotesque, kinky, odd, oddish, off beat, outlandish, peculiar, pixilated, puzzling, quaint, queer, quizzical, rummy, surprising, uncanny, unco, unnatural, unusual, viewy, way out, weird, whimsical), huaj (alien, foreign). (various references)

Arabic 

‏غير معروف (obscure, outsider, unbeknown, unknown), ‏غير مطلع على, ‏غريب (absurd, alien, anomalous, antic, bizarre, eerie, eery, exotic, extraneous, fanciful, foreign, freakish, funny, grotesque, intruder, ludicrous, new, odd, outlandish, outsider, peculiar, potty, quaint, queer, rum, senseless, singular, stranger, tall, unaccustomed, uncanny, uncouth, unearthly, unfamiliar, unnatural, whimsical), ‏أجنبي (alien, barbarian, foreign, outlandish, oversea, stranger). (various references)

Bulgarian 

странен (bizarre, comic, comical, fantastic, fantastical, freakish, funny, grotesque, novel, odd, outlandish, peculiar, quaint, queer, remarkable, rum, rummy, screwy, singular, uncanny, unco, unheard of, weird, whimsical), чуждестранен (alien, exotic, external, foreign, outlandish, Peregrin, tramontane), чужд (adventitious, adventive, alien, exterior, extraneous, extrinsic, foreign, outside, Peregrin, unfamiliar, vicarious), чуден (fantastic, fantastical, freak, freaky, funny, incredible, marvellous, marvelous, miraculous, peculiar), особен (distinct, especial, exclusive, fanciful, funny, idiosyncratic, individual, odd, original, particular, peculiar, queer, special, specific, uncommon), неочакван (accidental, emergent, snap, sudden, surprise, surprising, swift, unanticipated, uncontemplated, undreamed of, undreamt of, unexpected, unforeseen, unhoped-for, unlooked for, unrehearsed, unsought, unsuspected), необясним (inexplicable, unaccountable, unfathomable, unsearchable), непознат (incognizant, new, stranger, unbeknown, unbeknownst, unfamiliar, unknown, unrecognized, unseen), неизвестен (nameless, obscure, recondite, suspensive, unbeknown, uncouth, undiscovered, unfamiliar, unidentified, unknown, unnoted). (various references)

Chinese 

奇怪 (odd). (various references)

Czech

zvláštní (curious, extra, extraordinary, funny, individual, intriguing, odd, outlandish, particular, peculiar, quaint, queer, singular, special, unique, weird), podivný (curious, eldritch, freak, peculiar, quaint, queer, rum, utter, weird), překvapující (astonishing, startling, striking, surprising), nezvyklý (unaccustomed, uncommon, unusual, unwonted), neznámý (nameless, unbeknown, uncertain, unfamiliar, unknown), neobyèejný (extraordinary, phenomenal, rare, singular, special, spectacular, uncommon, unusual), divný (curious, dicky, odd), cizí (alien, extraneous, foreign, outlandish, someone else's, unfamiliar). (various references)

Danish

fremmed (alien, foreign). (various references)

Dutch

vreemd (alien, curious, foreign, interesting, odd, peculiar, quaint), onwennig (alien, foreign), buitenlands (alien, foreign). (various references)

Esperanto

stranga (odd, peculiar), fremda (alien, foreign). (various references)

Faeroese

serur (odd, peculiar), løgin (comic, comical, curious, funny, interesting, odd, peculiar, quaint), fremmandur (alien, foreign), egin (odd, own, peculiar, personal). (various references)

Farsi 

ناشناس (Incognito, Unco, Unknown), غیرمتجانس (Disharmonic, Disparate, Heterogeneous), غریبه (Stranger), عجیب (Eccentric, Extravagant, Marvelous, Rummy, Stupendous, Tremendous, Unco, Unfamiliar, Unfamiliarity), خارجی (Alien, Exoteric, Exterior, External, Extraneous, Guest, Outsider), بیگانه (Abroad, Alien, Barbarian, Barbarous, Exotic, Gringo, Only, Outsider, Stranger). (various references)

Finnish

vieras (alien, foreign, guest, stranger, unknown, visitor), kummallinen (curious, interesting, odd, peculiar, quaint, queer). (various references)

French

singulier, étranger (stranger), étrange. (various references)

Frisian

frjemd (alien, foreign, foreigner, odd, peculiar, stranger). (various references)

German

seltsam (bizarre, curious, curiously, extraordinary, fancy, foreign, interesting, odd, outlandish, outlandishness, peculiar, peculiarly, quaint, queer, queerly, strangely, unaccountable, weird, whimsical), sonderbar (curious, extraordinary, funny, mysteriously, odd, oddly, outlandish, outlandishly, peculiar, queer, singular, singularly, spooky, strangely, unaccountable, weirdly), fremd (alien, different, extraneous, extrinsic, foreign, outside, someone else's, unaccustomed, unfamiliar), wunderlich (bizarre, cranky, fantastic, fantastical, grotesque, odd, peculiar, quaint, whimsical, whimsically, wondrous), kurios (curious, interesting, odd, peculiar, quaint). (various references)

Greek 

ξένοσ (extraneous, extrinsic, foreign, foreigner, gringo, outlander, outsider, stranger, tramontane), μυστήριοσ (rum), περίεργος (curious, funny, inquisitiv, odd, out of place), παράξενοσ (bizarre, codger, crotchety, curious, eerie, freakish, funny, grotesque, outlandish, peculiar, quaint, queer, quizzical, rum), παράξενος (odd, out of place, peculiar, quaint, queer), αλλόχθονος. (various references)

Hawaiian

huaj (alien, foreign). (various references)

Hebrew 

מתמיה (amazing, astonishing, surprising), מוזר (curious, peculiar, quaint, queer), משונה (anomalous, eccentric, freak, odd, quaint, queer, weird), לועז (alien, foreign), תמוה (amazing, enigmatic, mystifying, odd, peculiar, surprising), תמהוני (eccentric, grotesque, outlandish, peculiar, weird), זר (alien, foreign, foreigner, outsider, stranger, unfamiliar). (various references)

Hungarian

szokatlan (new, odd, offbeat, out of the common, out of the ordinary, particular, unaccustomed, uncustomary, unfamiliar, unusual, unwonted), különös (antic, arabesque, bizarre, bonkers, extraordinary, fanciful, fantastic, fantastical, freaky, funny, outlandish, particular, peculiar, quaint, queer, rummy, singular, uncommon), idegenszerű (alien, outlandish), idegen (alien, extraneous, foreign, gringo, new comer, newcomer, outlander, outlandish, pure, stranger), furcsa (bizarre, bonkers, cockeyed, curious, dorky, droll, fanciful, fantasy, freakish, freaky, funny, grotesque, how odd that, kooky, louche, odd, outlandish, quaint, queer, quizzical, rum, rummy, strange to say, weird). (various references)

Icelandic

skrýtinn (odd, peculiar), vitlaus (odd, peculiar). (various references)

Indonesian

garib (exotic, percullar), asing (alien, different, exotic, foreign, odd), angel (difficult, unsual), aneh (abnormal, irregular, mysterious, odd, oddly, peculiar, queer, unnatural, unusual). (various references)

Italian

strano (astonishing, funny, nondescript, odd, outlandish, outlandishness, peculiar, quaint, queer, singular, surprising, unusual, weird, zany). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

奇抜 (eccentric, fantastic, novel, original, striking), 奇妙 (curious, queer). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ふうがわり (eccentric), ちん (curious, first person pronoun used by royalty, Japanese spaniel, Our, Pekinese, rare, We), ちんき (curious, novel, rare), へん (area, biased, book, change, compilation, completed poem, disturbance, eccentric, editing, flat, funny, incident, inclining, inclining toward, left radical of a character, odd, part of book, peculiar, queer, side, suspicious-looking, vicinity), へんてこ (weird), へんてこりん (weird), みょう (command, dark, decree, destiny, life, unusual), みしらぬ (unacquainted, unknown), みずしらず, よそうがい (unexpected, unforeseen), あじな (clever, smart, witty), めんよう (mysterious, sheep, weird), えたいのしれない (mysterious, suspicious, unfamiliar), かいき (a type of thin thread, bizarre, buying mood, death anniversary, foundation of a temple, laying a foundation, outrageous, recovery, recurrence, recursion, revolution, session, society by-laws, total eclipse, totality, weird, wonderful), おつ (chic, quaint, queer, romantic, spicy, stylish, tasty, witty), ふしぎ (curiosity, marvel, miracle, mystery, wonder), ひょんな (unexpected), きみょう (curious, queer), しらない (unknown), そこきみわるい (eerie, ominous), きい (disliking, displeasure, odd, offense, position of aircraft, wonderful, your request, your will, your wishes), きかい (chance, instrument, machine, mechanism, mysterious, opportunity, outrageous, shogi circles, the goworld, weird, wonderful), きっかい (mysterious, outrageous, weird, wonderful), きばつ (eccentric, fantastic, novel, original, striking), きなる (eccentric, odd), きたい (anticipation, curious, danger, distress, expectation, fuselage, gas, hope, jeopardy, queer, rare, strange or odd posture or figure, uncommon, vapour), おかしい (amusing, funny, ridiculous), いよう (bizarre, dignity, eccentric, majestic appearance, medical use, odd, queer). (various references)

Korean 

기이한. (various references)

Malay

asing (alien, foreign). (various references)

Manx

quaaie (psychic, psychical, queer), quaagh (alien, aloof, foreign, ghostly, odd, peculiar, psychic, psychical, quaint, supernatural, uncanny, weird), joarree (alien, bizarre, foreign, odd, outlander, outlandish, outsider, peculiar, remarkable, stranger, unfamiliar), anoayshagh (novel). (various references)

Norwegian

fremmed (alien, foreign, foreigner, stranger). (various references)

Papiamen

strabagante (odd, peculiar), strañu (alien, foreign), straño (odd, peculiar). (various references)

Pig Latin

angestray.(various references)

Portuguese

estranho (alien, awkward, curious, eerie, eery, extraneous, foreign, kinky, mysterious, novel, odd, outlandish, outsider, peculiar, quaint, queer, rum, unaccountable, uncanny, unco, unfamiliar, unknown, way-out, weird), esquisito (antic, bizarre, fastidious, freak, funny, odd, peculiar, queer, rum, weird). (various references)

Portuguese Brazilian

estranhos. (various references)

Romanian

surprinzãtor (astonishing, astonishingly, startling, stupendous, surprising, wonderful, wonderfully), straniu (awesome, bizarre, curiously, eerie, eery, funny, novel, odd, out of the way, particular, peculiar, queer, rum, singular, strangely, uncanny, uncouth, unearthly, weird, whimsical), strãin (alien, another's, extraneous, foreign, foreigner, guest, heterogeneous, outlandish, outsider, oversea, peregrine, stranger, unknown, visitor), neştiut (hidden, obscure, out of the way, secret, unknown), caraghios (antic, blockhead, booby, buffoon, comic, dolt, eccentric, fool, foolish, funny, ridiculous, ridiculously, screaming, singular, zany), ciudat (cranky, curious, droll, eccentric, extraordinary, extravagant, fanciful, fancy, freakish, funny, intriguing, kinky, odd, out of the way, outlandish, particular, peculiar, peculiarly, quaint, queer, rum, rummy, singular, strangely, uncouth, unusual, weird, whimsical), curios (agog, curiosity-monger, curious, inquisitive, meddler, odd, particular, paul pry, peculiar, prying, queer, quidnunc, rare, rum, uncommon), deosebit (apart, choice, different, differently, dissimilar, distinct, distinguished, divergent, diverse, especial, excellent, extra, in a class by itself, particular, peculiar, peculiarly, profoundly, remarkable, separate, singular, special, specific, sundry, uncommon, unlike, unusual, variant, varied), din altã ţarã (foreign, outlandish), fantezist (capricious, fanciful, fancy, fantastic, fantastical, invented, lunar, notionist, phantasmal, whimsical), interesant (amusing, appealing, attractive, catchy, fruity, interesting, nutty, readable, sapid), bizar (bizarre, droll, extravagant, fancy, quaint, queer, rummy, singular, strangely, whimsical), minunat (beautiful, beautifully, best, brave, bright, capital, champion, charming, delightfully, exceptional, jolly, lovely, magic, magical, marvellous, miraculous, paradisaic, paradisaical, passing, proud, royal, special, splendid, superb, superbly, supernatural, tiptop, wonderful, wonder-working), venetic (alien), necunoscut (nameless, obscure, out of the way, stranger, unfamiliar, unknown), nedeprins, nefamiliarizat, neobişnuit (different, exceptional, extraordinary, fresh, novel, odd, out, out of the way, particular, portentous, remarkable, singular, unaccustomed, uncommon, unused, unusual, unwonted), jenat (abashed, ashamed, embarrassed). (various references)

Russian 

странный (bizarre, curious, exotic, freakish, freaky, funny, kinky, left-field, odd, oddish, off-the wall, peculiar, phoney, queer, rummy, unaccountable, unco, vagarious, weird), странно странный, чужой (alien, foreign, vicarious), чуждый (extraneous, foreign), чудной (comic, comical, odd), незнакомый (unacquainted, unconversant, unfamiliar). (various references)

Scottish

iongantach (surprising, wonderful), coimheach, annasach (unusual). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

stran (alien, foreign, non-native), tuđ (alien, extraneous, foreign, peregrin), nepoznat (inconversant, obscure, unaccustomed, unacquainted, unbeknown, unfamiliar, unknown), neobičan (novel, out of the way, outlandish, pixilated, unacquainted, unco, uncommon, weird), čudan (eccentric, flaky, funny, miraculous, odd, oddish, peculiar, pixilated, quaint, queer, unco, way out, weird, wondrous). (various references)

Spanish

extraño (alien, bizarre, dago, droll, eerie, extraneous, foreign, kinky, odd, oddish, out of the way, peculiar, quaint, queer, quizzical, rum, rummy, singular, stranger, uncommon, weird), raro (curious, Dandy, definite, dignified, dingy, droll, exotic, extraordinary, extravagant, few and far between, frothy, funny, ichneumon, infrequent, lead, odd, oddball, oddish, odds-on, outlandishness, peculiar, queerish, quirky, rare, rum, scarce, singular, uncanny, unusual, vintage, weird). (various references)

Swahili

-a kigeni (alien, foreign), a kigeni (alien, foreign). (various references)

Swedish

främmande (alien, company, extraneous, foreign, foreigner, guest, guests, outlandish, stranger, unaccustomed, visitor, visitors), underlig (curious, erratic, freakish, funny, funny-looking, odd, oddish, peculiar, queer, rum, weird), märkvärdig (corious, curious, extraordinary, noteworthy, odd, peculiar, remarkable), konstig (curious, funny, intricate, odd, queer, weird), egendomlig (curious, odd, outlandish, peculiar, singular, unaccountable, whimsical), egen (odd, one's own, own, peculiar, quaint, queer). (various references)

Turkish

yabancı (alien, exotic, foreign, foreigner, gook, gringo, outlandish, outsider, peregrine, stranger, tramontane, unfamiliar, unknown, xeno), tuhaf (antic, bizarre, comical, cranky, curious, droll, erratic, flaky, funnily, funny, funny peculiar, laughable, odd, offbeat, peculiar, peregrine, queer, quizzical, rum, rummy, screwball, screwy, singular, splay, twee, unaccustomed, uncouth, unusual, weird, whimsical), işe yabancı, garip (awkward, bizarre, codger, comical, cranky, crotchety, curious, droll, eccentric, exotic, fanciful, fancy, fantastic, fantastical, far out, freak, freakish, funny, funny peculiar, grotesque, kinky, odd, out of the way, outlandish, poor, queer, quizzical, rum, rummy, screwball, screwy, weirdo, whimsical), bilinmeyen (mysterious, mystery, obscure, occult, recondite, secret, unbeknown, unbeknownst, unknown, unknown quantity, x), acemi (apprentice, beginner, bungler, callow, catechumen, clumsy, colt, cub, dabster, green, greenhorn, guiltless, half-baked, inept, inexperienced, inexperienced hand, inexpert, jackaroo, johnny-come-lately, learner, neophyte, new, novice, Prentice, punk, raw, recruit, runnynose, simple, stooge, stranger, sucking, tenderfoot, tiro, trainee, tyro, unbaked, unfledged, unseasoned, unskilled, untrained, unversed, young, young in one's job), acayip (antic, bizarre, bughouse, comical, comically, crotchety, curious, droll, exotic, fanciful, fantastic, fantastical, flaky, freak, freakish, grotesque, incongruous, kinky, kooky, novel, odd, out of the way, outlandish, peculiar, quaint, queer, quirky, quizzical, rum, rummy, screwball, singular, some, splendiferous, uncanny, unco, unusual, weird), acayíp (odd, peculiar). (various references)

Turkmen 

geс (surprising, weird), del (unusual), birhili (monotonous, somewhat). (various references)

Ukrainian

чудний (antic, bizarre, droll, erratic, funny, odd, oddball, oddish, outlandish, singular), незвичний (non-conventional, non-natural, novel, unfamiliar), незнайомий (new, newcomer, unacquainted, unfamiliar), дивний (amazing, astonishing, astounding, bizarre, capricious, curious, freakish, odd, oddball, oddish, offbeat, original, out of the way, outlandish, quaint, queer, rum, rummy, unaccountable, weird, wonderful, wondrous). (various references)

Vietnamese 

xa lạ (alien), thấy choáng váng thấy lạ, lạ (new-fangled, unco, unfamiliar), không quen biết kỳ lạ, kỳ quặc mới, kỳ dị (arabesque, baroque, bizarre, curious, singular, uncommon, weird, whimsical), chưa quen thấy trong người khang khác, cảm thấy xa lạ, cảm thấy không được thoải mái. (various references)

Welsh

rhyfedd (bizarre, funny, humorous, odd, queer, wonderful), od (bizarre, odd), estronol (alien, foreign), estronaidd (alien, foreign), estron (alien, foreign, foreigner), eres (wonderful), dieithr (alien, foreign, stranger), chwithig (awkward, bizarre, wrong), chwith (left, sad, sorry, wrong), aruthr (cruel, marvelous, terrible, very, wonderful), anadnabyddus (unknown). (various references)

allos, barbaros. (various references)

admirabile, admirabilis, advena, alienigena, alienus, allophylus, externorum, externum, externus, extraneus, hospitus, ignotae, ignotas, ignoti, ignoto, ignotos, ignotus, insolitus, mira, mirum, peregrina, peregrinae, peregrinam, peregrini, peregrinis, peregrino, peregrinorum, peregrinos, peregrinum, peregrinus, proselyti, proselytis, proselytorum, proselytos, proselytum. (various references)

estrange, nastre. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.