Wried vs Strange - What's the difference?
wried | strange |
(wry)
Turned away, contorted (of the face or body).
* 1837 , , The Pickwick Papers , ch. 17:
* 1913 , , The Motion Picture Chums at Seaside Park , ch. 11:
Dryly humorous; sardonic or bitterly ironic.
* 1871 , , The Haunted Baronet , ch. 6:
Twisted, bent, crooked.
Deviating from the right direction; misdirected; out of place.
* 1820 , , The Abbot , ch. 34:
* 1876 , , The Works and Life of Walter Savage Landor , vol. IV, Imaginary Conversations, Third Series: Dialogues of Literary Men, ch. 6—Milton and Andrew Marvel,
(obsolete) To turn (away); to swerve or deviate.
* 1535 , , Dialogue of Comfort Against Tribulation , ch. 18:
* , Cymbeline , act 5, sc. 1:
(obsolete) To divert; to cause to turn away.
To twist or contort (the body, face etc.).
(obsolete) To cover; clothe; cover up; cloak; hide.
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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As verbs the difference between wried and strange
is that wried is past tense of wry while strange is to alienate; to estrange.As an adjective strange is
not normal; odd, unusual, surprising, out of the ordinary.As a noun strange is
vagina.As a proper noun Strange is
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English
Verb
(head)Anagrams
*wry
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) wrien, from (etyl) . Compare awry, wriggle.Adjective
(en-adj)- '"Why, you snivelling, wry -faced, puny villain," gasped old Lobbs.
- “Humph! Had to,” said Pep with a wry grimace.
- "[T]he master says a wry word now and then; and so ye let your spirits go down, don't ye see, and all sorts o' fancies comes into your head."
- Catherine hath made a wry stitch in her broidery, when she was thinking of something else than her work.
p. 155 (Google preview):
- . . . the wry rigour of our neighbours, who never take up an old idea without some extravagance in its application.
Derived terms
* wryly * awryVerb
- God pricketh them of his great goodness still. And the grief of this great pang pincheth them at the heart, and of wickedness they wry away.
- You married ones,
- If each of you should take this course, how many
- Must murder wives much better than themselves
- For wrying but a little!
Etymology 2
From (etyl) wryen, wrien, wreon, wrihen, from (etyl) .Verb
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)
