Tra từ strange - Từ điển Oxford Learners Wordfinder Dictionary

not strange USUAL
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- unusual or unexpected: strange (adverb strangely), funny (adverb funnily), odd (adverb oddly), peculiar
a strange experience ◎ to speak in a strange voice ◎ to behave strangely ◎ He was strangely silent. ◎ to feel funny ◎ an odd sort of person ◎ a peculiar shape/taste
- the quality of being strange: strangeness (noun U)
- very strange: bizarre, extraordinary
bizarre behaviour ◎ I've just had the most extraordinary experience.
- strange and sometimes frightening: weird
I had a weird dream last night.
- strange and interesting: curious
What a curious expression! What does it mean exactly?
- strange and difficult to believe: fantastic
Do you really expect me to believe such a fantastic excuse?
- strange and different from what is normally expected: unnatural
It's unnatural for a child to be so silent.
- very strange and seeming to be imagined: unreal
The situation was totally unreal - I had never experienced anything like it before.
- a thing or person that you cannot understand: mystery; adjective: mysterious (adverb mysteriously)
They never solved the mystery of the missing diamonds. ◎ It's an absolute mystery. ◎ Several people have seen a mysterious figure in the churchyard.
- a wonderful and extraordinary event that is impossible to explain: miracle; adjective: miraculous (adverb miraculously)
Only a miracle can help us now. ◎ a miraculous recovery from an illness ◎ The policeman miraculously appeared just at the right moment.
- the unusual or unexpected part of a situation, that seems strange or amusing: irony (noun C/U); adjective: ironic, ironical (adverb ironically)
The irony is that I actually like her, in spite of what she did. ◎ It was ironic that his life was saved in an enemy hospital.
- a statement that seems to be impossible but that is true or may be true: paradox; adjective: paradoxical (adverb paradoxically)
Paradoxically, as global warming increases, the winters seem to be getting colder.
- a person who has strange ideas or who behaves in a strange way: crank, eccentric; adjective: eccentric
He's a bit of a crank, but quite harmless really. ◎ She's becoming more and more eccentric in her old age.
- when you are going to explain how strange sth is, you can begin by saying funnily/strangely/oddly enough ※¦
Funnily enough, I was thinking about you just before you arrived.