Adjective

(en adjective)

(not comparable) Lacking a name; not named and determined, as an animal not assigned to any species.

(not comparable) Without any name acknowledged of a person responsible, as that of author, contributor, or the like.

an anonymous''' pamphlet; an ' anonymous subscription.

(not comparable) Of unknown name; whose name is withheld

an anonymous' author; an ' anonymous benefactor.

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No customer personal data will be retained unless it is rendered anonymous .

(comparable, figurative) Lacking individuality.

an anonymous office block in a soulless industrial estate

Adjective

(er)

Not normal; odd, unusual, surprising, out of the ordinary.

He thought it strange that his girlfriend wore shorts in the winter.

* Milton

Sated at length, erelong I might perceive / Strange alteration in me.

Unfamiliar, not yet part of one's experience.

I moved to a strange town when I was ten.

* Shakespeare

Here is the hand and seal of the duke; you know the character, I doubt not; and the signet is not strange to you.

* 1955 , edition, ISBN 0553249592, pages 48–49:

She's probably sitting there hoping a couple of strange detectives will drop in.

(physics) Having the quantum mechanical property of strangeness.

* 2004 Frank Close, Particle Physics: A Very Short Introduction , Oxford, page 93:

A strange quark is electrically charged, carrying an amount -1/3, as does the down quark.

(obsolete) Belonging to another country; foreign.

* Shakespeare

one of the strange queen's lords

* Ascham

I do not contemn the knowledge of strange and divers tongues.

(obsolete) Reserved; distant in deportment.

* Shakespeare

She may be strange and shy at first, but will soon learn to love thee.

(Nathaniel Hawthorne)

(obsolete) Backward; slow.

* Beaumont and Fletcher

Who, loving the effect, would not be strange / In favouring the cause.

(obsolete) Not familiar; unaccustomed; inexperienced.

* Shakespeare

In thy fortunes am unlearned and strange .