Strange vs Horrible - What's the difference?
strange | horrible |
Not normal; odd, unusual, surprising, out of the ordinary.
* Milton
Unfamiliar, not yet part of one's experience.
* Shakespeare
* 1955 , edition, ISBN 0553249592, pages 48–49:
(physics) Having the quantum mechanical property of strangeness.
* 2004 Frank Close, Particle Physics: A Very Short Introduction , Oxford, page 93:
(obsolete) Belonging to another country; foreign.
* Shakespeare
* Ascham
(obsolete) Reserved; distant in deportment.
* Shakespeare
(obsolete) Backward; slow.
* Beaumont and Fletcher
(obsolete) Not familiar; unaccustomed; inexperienced.
* Shakespeare
(obsolete) To alienate; to estrange.
(obsolete) To be estranged or alienated.
(obsolete) To wonder; to be astonished.
(slang, uncountable) vagina
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A thing that causes horror; a terrifying thing, particularly a prospective bad consequence asserted as likely to result from an act.
* 1851 , Herman Melville, Moby Dick
* 1982 , United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, The Genocide Convention: Hearing Before the Committee on Foreign Relations, United States Senate
* 1991 , Alastair Scott, Tracks Across Alaska: A Dog Sled Journey
* 2000 , John Dean,
* 2001 , Neil K. Komesar, Law's Limits: The Rule of Law and the Supply and Demand of Rights
A person wearing a comic or grotesque costume in a parade of horribles.
Causing horror; terrible; shocking.
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*:Such a scandal as the prosecution of a brother for forgery—with a verdict of guilty—is a most truly horrible , deplorable, fatal thing. It takes the respectability out of a family perhaps at a critical moment, when the family is just assuming the robes of respectability:it is a black spot which all the soaps ever advertised could never wash off.
*, comment=The New Yorker, March 19
, passage=Strangers fainted dead away at the sight of the Laughing Man's horrible face. Acquaintances shunned him.}}
*, author=(Ray Bradbury)
, passage=Some of us have had plastic surgery on our faces and fingerprints. Right now we have a horrible job; we're waiting for the war to begin and, as quickly, end.}}
Tremendously wrong or errant.
*{{quote-book, year=1933, title=(My Life and Hard Times), author=(James Thurber)
, passage=Her own mother lived the latter years of her life in the horrible suspicion that electricity was dripping invisibly all over the house.}}
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As a proper noun strange
is .As a noun horrible is
a thing that causes horror; a terrifying thing, particularly a prospective bad consequence asserted as likely to result from an act.As an adjective horrible is
causing horror; terrible; shocking.strange
English
Adjective
(er)- He thought it strange that his girlfriend wore shorts in the winter.
- Sated at length, erelong I might perceive / Strange alteration in me.
- I moved to a strange town when I was ten.
- Here is the hand and seal of the duke; you know the character, I doubt not; and the signet is not strange to you.
- She's probably sitting there hoping a couple of strange detectives will drop in.
- A strange quark is electrically charged, carrying an amount -1/3, as does the down quark.
- one of the strange queen's lords
- I do not contemn the knowledge of strange and divers tongues.
- She may be strange and shy at first, but will soon learn to love thee.
- (Nathaniel Hawthorne)
- Who, loving the effect, would not be strange / In favouring the cause.
- In thy fortunes am unlearned and strange .
Synonyms
* (not normal) bizarre, fremd, odd, out of the ordinary, peculiar, queer, singular, unwonted, weird * (qualifier, not part of one's experience): new, unfamiliar, unknown * See alsoAntonyms
* (not normal) everyday, normal, regular (especially US), standard, usual, unsurprising * (qualifier, not part of one's experience): familiar, knownDerived terms
* for some strange reason * like a cat in a strange garret * strange as it may seem * strange bird * strangelet * strange matter * strange quark * strangely * strangeness * strangeonium * stranger things happen at sea, stranger things have happened at sea * strange to say * truth is stranger than fictionVerb
(strang)- (Glanvill)
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* 1000 English basic wordsNoun
(no plural)horrible
English
Noun
(en noun)- Here's a carcase. I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I'll go to it laughing. Such a waggish leering as lurks in all your horribles !
- A lot of the possible horribles conjured up by the people objecting to this convention ignore the plain language of this treaty.
- The pot had previously simmered skate wings, cods' heads, whales, pigs' hearts and a long litany of other horribles .
CNN interview, January 21, 2000:
- I'm trying to convince him that the criminal behavior that's going on at the White House has to end. And I give him one horrible after the next. I just keep raising them. He sort of swats them away.
- Many scholars have demonstrated these horribles and contemplated significant limitations on class actions.