Word Finder - stranger

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

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

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Unfamiliar, not yet part of one's experience.

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I moved to a strange town when I was ten.

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Having the quantum mechanical property of strangeness.

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Of an attractor: having a fractal structure.

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Belonging to another country; foreign.

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Reserved; distant in deportment.

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Backward; slow.

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Not familiar; unaccustomed; inexperienced.

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Not belonging to one.

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A person whom one does not know; a person who is neither a friend nor an acquaintance.

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That gentleman is a stranger to me.  Children are taught not to talk to strangers.

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An outsider or foreigner.

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One not admitted to communion or fellowship.

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A newcomer.

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One who has not been seen for a long time.

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Hello, stranger!

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One not belonging to the family or household; a guest; a visitor.

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One not privy or party to an act, contract, or title; a mere intruder or intermeddler; one who interferes without right.

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Actual possession of land gives a good title against a stranger having no title.

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A superstitious premonition of the coming of a visitor by a bit of stalk in a cup of tea, the guttering of a candle, etc.

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To estrange; to alienate.

The hidden stranger lashed out at him.

Who was this stranger and what had he done with sweet Alex?

He would not have to pay stranger to have his baby.

Don't be a stranger now.

Alex wasn't paying a stranger to give him an heir.

It was a man too familiar to be a stranger, with beautiful purple eyes, a small frame, and a face without emotion.

The stranger was silent, gaze riveted to her.

She wasn't sure why she trusted the stranger, but everything he said was said with conviction.

The little stranger came and sat with them.

A curly blond head peeked around the corner and large blue eyes studied the stranger cautiously.

By night he was a demanding stranger who knew no bounds.

As a stranger to human affection, he'd never quite gotten used to her hugs.

The hunky stranger spoke to Romas's oldest brother.

Soon the little stranger was clad in the warm clothes; the dry soft blanket was wrapped around him; and he was laid on the children's bed.

The blow hurt, but he was no stranger to pain.

When she looked to the stranger, she found his warning look on her.

Sofia stood as his hot gaze fell to her, sensing he wanted no stranger near the woman.

This was no stranger.

And if this is really Melyukovka, it is still stranger that we drove heaven knows where and have come to Melyukovka, thought Nicholas.

Like, hooking up with a stranger at a bar like they did in movies and a few sex positions she'd been subtly trying to talk him into.

Josh was no stranger to a fistfight, and he was considered by many to be a formidable opponent.

He was a complete stranger.

Let the stranger play guardian angel - as long as he kept his distance.

The stranger bent over him and looked at the picture he had made on the rock.

Kiss me, he said, having learned who the young stranger was.

Her time was too short to turn away a tall, dark, handsome, intriguing, dangerous stranger she met on the beach in the moonlight who smelled good.

Gabe hated her yet couldn't escape the memory of the compassion and spirit that made him take a stranger to bed last night.

Although taken aback by such intimacy from a stranger, as well as terrified himself, he felt an overwhelming need to comfort her.

She bit her lip, wondering why the gentle words of a stranger affected her as they did.

Claire stared after him then looked back at the stranger in black.

They will take time to write a great big forum post just for you, a total stranger they will never meet.

Mr. Vining was a stranger to me, and could not communicate with me, except by writing braille.

I have heard of a dog that barked at every stranger who approached his master's premises with clothes on, but was easily quieted by a naked thief.

Pierre listened with swelling heart, gazing into the Mason's face with shining eyes, not interrupting or questioning him, but believing with his whole soul what the stranger said.

Pierre hurriedly began taking off his right boot also and was going to tuck up the other trouser leg to save this stranger the trouble, but the Mason told him that was not necessary and gave him a slipper for his left foot.

The girl was shouting something but, seeing that he was a stranger, ran back laughing without looking at him.

Two huntsmen galloped up to the dogs; one in a red cap, the other, a stranger, in a green coat.

His voice was quiet and confident, and she felt like a visitor in his throne room rather than a woman talking to a stranger chained to her basement wall.

She felt his arms around her and leaned into him, surprised at how natural it felt to be held against a complete stranger who made her want to flee for the hills and strip naked at the same time.

Deidre turned to see if there was someone behind her the stranger spoke to.

It might've been another seven-foot stranger concerned about your welfare.

Would it have been easier on you if you heard it from either a complete stranger or someone you can't quite figure out?

She'd turned from the sweet, open Angel who kept him company on dark nights to a stranger who wanted nothing to do with him.

Xander gazed up at the stranger.

When everything was ready, the stranger opened his eyes, moved to the table, filled a tumbler with tea for himself and one for the beardless old man to whom he passed it.

All at once the stranger closed the book, putting in a marker, and again, leaning with his arms on the back of the sofa, sat in his former position with his eyes shut.

But seeing a stranger the sickly, scrofulous-looking child, unattractively like her mother, began to yell and run away.

But I'm not a stranger.

She knew little about the stranger who called to check on her every day, not even his real name, but she was always cheered by his familiar voice.

The condo felt like it belonged to a stranger.