strange

strange
adj.
VERBS
▪ appear, be, feel, look, seem, smell, sound, taste
▪ consider sth, find sth, regard sth as (esp. BrE), think sth
▪

His actions were regarded as very strange.

ADVERB
▪ extremely, fairly, very, etc.
▪ incredibly
▪ a little, slightly, etc.
▪

He's nice, but a little strange.

PREPOSITION
▪ to
▪

Their accent was strange to her ears.

PHRASES
▪ strange and wonderful (esp. AmE)
▪

He told all sorts of strange and wonderful stories.

Strange is used with these nouns: ↑angle, ↑appearance, ↑assortment, ↑beast, ↑behaviour, ↑being, ↑belief, ↑blend, ↑business, ↑clothes, ↑coincidence, ↑collection, ↑combination, ↑compulsion, ↑concept, ↑conversation, ↑country, ↑creature, ↑custom, ↑disappearance, ↑dream, ↑emotion, ↑encounter, ↑excitement, ↑expression, ↑face, ↑fascination, ↑fashion, ↑feeling, ↑fellow, ↑gleam, ↑habit, ↑idea, ↑incident, ↑kind, ↑land, ↑language, ↑logic, ↑look, ↑lump, ↑man, ↑mix, ↑mixture, ↑mood, ↑noise, ↑obsession, ↑occurrence, ↑odour, ↑paradox, ↑people, ↑phenomenon, ↑place, ↑quirk, ↑remark, ↑request, ↑ritual, ↑scene, ↑sensation, ↑sense of humour, ↑shadow, ↑shape, ↑sight, ↑situation, ↑smell, ↑sort, ↑sound, ↑story, ↑surroundings, ↑tale, ↑taste, ↑thing, ↑thought, ↑tongue, ↑turn, ↑twist, ↑urge, ↑vision, ↑way, ↑world

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