Definition: not known before
Usage: used many strange words; saw many strange faces in the crowd; don't let anyone unknown into the house
Similar words: unfamiliar
Definition: not known or well known
Usage: a name unfamiliar to most; be alert at night especially in unfamiliar surroundings
Definition: being definitely out of the ordinary and unexpected; slightly odd or even a bit weird
Usage: a strange exaltation that was indefinable; a strange fantastical mind; what a strange sense of humor she has
Similar words: fantastic, fantastical, grotesque, antic
Definition: ludicrously odd
Usage: Hamlet's assumed antic disposition; fantastic Halloween costumes; a grotesque reflection in the mirror
Similar words: crazy
Definition: bizarre or fantastic
Usage: had a crazy dream; wore a crazy hat
Similar words: curious, queer, funny, odd, peculiar, rum, rummy, singular
Definition: beyond or deviating from the usual or expected
Usage: a curious hybrid accent; her speech has a funny twang; they have some funny ideas about war; had an odd name; the peculiar aromatic odor of cloves; something definitely queer about this town; what a rum fellow; singular behavior
Definition: inspiring a feeling of fear; strange and frightening
Usage: an uncomfortable and eerie stillness in the woods; an eerie midnight howl
Similar words: exotic
Definition: strikingly strange or unusual
Usage: an exotic hair style; protons, neutrons, electrons and all their exotic variants; the exotic landscape of a dead planet
Similar words: freaky
Definition: strange and somewhat frightening
Usage: the whole experience was really freaky
Similar words: gothic
Definition: characterized by gloom and mystery and the grotesque
Usage: gothic novels like `Frankenstein'
Similar words: oddish
Definition: somewhat strange
Similar words: other
Definition: very unusual; different in character or quality from the normal or expected
Usage: a strange, other dimension...where his powers seemed to fail- Lance Morrow
Similar words: quaint
Definition: strange in an interesting or pleasing way
Usage: quaint dialect words; quaint streets of New Orleans, that most foreign of American cities
Similar words: quaint
Definition: very strange or unusual; odd or even incongruous in character or appearance
Usage: the head terminating in the quaint duck bill which gives the animal its vernacular name- Bill Beatty; came forth a quaint and fearful sight- Sir Walter Scott; a quaint sense of humor
Similar words: weird
Definition: strikingly odd or unusual
Usage: some trick of the moonlight; some weird effect of shadow- Bram Stoker
Definition: relating to or originating in or characteristic of another place or part of the world
Usage: foreign nations; a foreign accent; on business in a foreign city
Similar words: adventive
Definition: not native and not fully established; locally or temporarily naturalized
Usage: an adventive weed
Definition: being or from or characteristic of another place or part of the world
Usage: alien customs; exotic plants in a greenhouse; exotic cuisine
Similar words: nonnative
Definition: of plants or animals originating in a part of the world other than where they are growing
Similar words: naturalized, established
Definition: introduced from another region and persisting without cultivation
Similar words: foreign-born, nonnative
Definition: of persons born in another area or country than that lived in
Usage: our large nonnative population
Similar words: imported
Definition: used of especially merchandise brought from a foreign source
Usage: imported wines
Similar words: tramontane
Definition: being or coming from another country
Usage: tramontane influences
Similar words: unnaturalised, unnaturalized
Definition: not having acquired citizenship