mindmap root((奇怪)) strange stresses unfamiliarity and may apply to the foreign, the unnatural, the unaccountable, or the new: immigrants adjusting to ~ new customs. singular suggests individuality or puzzling strangeness: a ~ feeling of impending disaster. unique implies an absence of peers and the fact of being without a known parallel: a career that was ~ in the annals of science. peculiar implies a marked distinctiveness: problems ~ to inner-city areas. eccentric suggests a divergence from the usual or normal especially in behavior: the ~ eating habits of young children. erratic stresses a capricious and unpredictable wandering or deviating form the normal or expected: disturbed by his friend's ~ behavior. odd applies to a possibly fantastic departure from the regular or expected: an ~ sense of humor. queer suggests a dubious sometimes sinister oddness: puzzled by the ~ happenings since her arrival. quaint suggests an old-fashioned but pleasant oddness: a ~ and remote village in the mountains. outlandish applies to what is uncouth, bizarre, or barbaric: islanders having ~ customs and superstitions.