Difference between Other and Strange

What is the difference between Other and Strange?

Other as an adjective is out of a set of two, not the one previously referred to. while Strange as an adjective is not normal; odd, unusual, surprising, out of the ordinary.

Other

Part of speech: determiner

Definition: Not the one previously referred to.

Part of speech: adverb

Definition: Apart from; in the phrase "other than".

Part of speech: conjunction

Definition: Or.

Part of speech: noun

Definition: An other one.

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Out of a set of two, not the one previously referred to. Contrary to.

Example sentence: Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

Strange

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Not normal; odd, unusual, surprising, out of the ordinary.Unfamiliar, not yet part of one's experience.Having the quantum mechanical property of strangeness.

Example sentence: It sounds strange to say, but someone's bad luck is sometimes the happiness of the other.

We hope you now know whether to use Other or Strange in your sentence.

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