Crossword clues for strangest
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Strange \Strange\, a. [Compar. Stranger; superl. Strangest.] [OE. estrange, F. ['e]trange, fr. L. extraneus that is without, external, foreign, fr. extra on the outside. See Extra, and cf. Estrange, Extraneous.]
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Belonging to another country; foreign. ``To seek strange strands.''
--Chaucer.One of the strange queen's lords.
--Shak.I do not contemn the knowledge of strange and divers tongues.
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Of or pertaining to others; not one's own; not pertaining to one's self; not domestic.
So she, impatient her own faults to see, Turns from herself, and in strange things delights.
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Not before known, heard, or seen; new.
Here is the hand and seal of the duke; you know the character, I doubt not; and the signet is not strange to you.
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Not according to the common way; novel; odd; unusual; irregular; extraordinary; unnatural; queer. ``He is sick of a strange fever.''
--Shak.Sated at length, erelong I might perceive Strange alteration in me.
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Reserved; distant in deportment.
--Shak.She may be strange and shy at first, but will soon learn to love thee.
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Backward; slow. [Obs.]
Who, loving the effect, would not be strange In favoring the cause.
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Not familiar; unaccustomed; inexperienced. In thy fortunes am unlearned and strange. --Shak. Note: 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.
To assume ignorance, suspicion, or alarm, concerning it.
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To make it a matter of difficulty. [Obs.] --Chaucer. To make strange, To make one's self strange.
To profess ignorance or astonishment.
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To assume the character of a stranger.
--Gen. xlii. 7.Syn: Foreign; new; outlandish; wonderful; astonishing; marvelous; unusual; odd; uncommon; irregular; queer; eccentric.
Wiktionary
a. (en-superlative of: strange)
Usage examples of "strangest".
He was just enough civilized to show off his outlandishness in the strangest possible manner.
He made it sound like it was the strangest thing in the world for a boy to be here for me.
When she looked back at Will, he was standing there not three feet from her with the strangest expression, balanced so precisely between mirth and anger it was impossible to read.
But here was Alice right before him, the most beautiful girl that he had ever seen, telling him the strangest story of all.
Suddenly Sarah felt the strangest sense that she was no longer talking to her employer, but to a peer.
But strangest of all is the circumstance, that in more instances than one, when the body has been recovered, not a single mark of violence is discernible the man being stark dead.
SELIM And strangest of all, at Cairo, for the amusement of the Sultan, he turned the whole population into apes for half an hour.
Hall of Justice in Tarantia, on this warm spring day, eight thousand years after the fall of Atlantis and seven thousand years before the rise of Egypt and Sumeria, was to be the strangest and most fantastic of all the many that thronged his far-famed and peril-filled career.
Red Lion set forth into the storm-tossed, monster-haunted wastes of the Western Ocean, on the strangest of quests.
Peg has found you to be the kindest and most agreeable man of her acquaintance, though perhaps the strangest in some of your preferences.
He took her hand, but the strangest feeling of uncleanness possessed him at the first touch of her and he quickly released it.
He began, meaning to announce his complete lack of understanding, but his voice faltered when he realised that now he stood in the strangest place yet.
I am about to undertake the strangest criminal investigation of my career, partly I admit to satisfy a long-standing personal curiosity but mainly to determine if prosecution should be brought.
The carved top of it seemed to shift and move slightly under the pressure of her hand and confirmed in the strangest way her feeling that the house itself had a singular kind of life.
She would never know it, of course, but she had given me the strangest, darkest, most horrifying idea of my life.