In thy fortunes am unlearned and strange.
Shak.
Strange is often used as an exclamation.
Strange! what extremes should thus preserve the snow High on the
Alps, or in deep caves below.
Waller.
Strange sail (Naut.), an unknown vessel. -- Strange woman (Script.), a
harlot. Prov. v. 3. -- To make it strange. (a) To assume ignorance,
suspicion, or alarm, concerning it. Shak. (b) To make it a matter of
difficulty. [Obs.] Chaucer. -- To make strange, To make one's self
strange. (a) To profess ignorance or astonishment. (b) To assume the
character of a stranger. Gen. xlii. 7.
Syn. -- Foreign; new; outlandish; wonderful; astonishing; marvelous;
unusual; odd; uncommon; irregular; queer; eccentric.