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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