Thesaurus:strange
English
Adjective
Sense: not normal
Synonyms
- aberrant
- abnormal
- alien
- anomalous
- as queer as Dick's hatband (dated)
- bizarre
- curious
- deviant
- discrepant
- eerie [⇒ thesaurus]
- eldritch
- errant
- exceptional
- extraordinary
- fey
- forby (UK, dialect)
- freak
- freakish
- freaky
- fremd (rare, chiefly dialectal)
- funny [⇒ thesaurus]
- heteroclite
- hinky (informal)
- incongruous
- incongruitous
- irregular
- kooky (informal)
- monstrous [⇒ thesaurus] (obsolete)
- nonstandard
- odd
- outlandish
- out of the ordinary
- outré
- peculiar
- quaint (now dialectal)
- queer (dated outside Scotland)
- queer as a clockwork orange (UK)
- queer as a nine bob note (UK)
- queer as a three dollar bill (US)
- queer as a coot
- queer as Dick's hatband (dated)
- rare [⇒ thesaurus]
- rum (UK, dated)
- rummy (UK, dated)
- selcouth
- seld
- singular
- strange
- trippy (informal)
- uncanny
- uncommon
- unconventional
- unearthly
- unexpected
- unreasonable
- unusual
- unwonted
- weird
- weirdsome
- yampy (UK, dialect)
Antonyms
Hyponyms
- eccentric [⇒ thesaurus]
- gorky (informal)
- quirky
- strange-ass (slang)
- unorthodox [⇒ thesaurus]
- weird-ass (slang)
Various
See also
- crooked (figurative)
Further reading
- “83. unconformity” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
- “strange” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.