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Strange is a related term of adventitious.

As a proper noun strange

is .

As an adjective adventitious is

from an external source; not innate or inherent, foreign.

strange

English

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 .

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 also

Antonyms

* (not normal) everyday, normal, regular (especially US), standard, usual, unsurprising * (qualifier, not part of one's experience): familiar, known

Derived 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 fiction

Verb

(strang)

(obsolete) To alienate; to estrange.

(obsolete) To be estranged or alienated.

(obsolete) To wonder; to be astonished.

(Glanvill)

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Noun

(no plural)

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adventitious

English

Adjective

(en adjective)

From an external source; not innate or inherent, foreign.

Accidental, additional, appearing casually.

* 2002 , , The Great Nation , Penguin 2003, p. 30:

The adventitious disappearance of those nearer the the throne than the duke had, moreover, set tongues awagging.

(genetics, medicine) Not congenital; acquired.

(biology) Developing in an unusual place or from an unusual source.

* 1985 , , H. T. Clifford, & P. F. Yeo, The Families of the Monocotyledons , page 101

The Velloziaceae have evolved a woody stem which is covered with a layer of adventitious roots mingled with the fibres of the old leaf sheaths;

Synonyms

* (from an external source) extrinsic * accidental, spontaneous, sporadic * (not congenital) acquired

Derived terms

* adventitiously * adventitiousness