Peculiar
Part of speech: adjective
Definition: Out of the ordinary; odd; curious; unusual. Common or usual for a certain place or circumstance; specific or particular.
Example sentence: It would no doubt be very sentimental to argue - but I would argue it nevertheless - that the peculiar combination of joy and sadness in bell music - both of clock chimes, and of change-ringing - is very typical of England. It is of a piece with the irony in which English people habitually address one another.
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: Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. The friends who listen to us are the ones we move toward. When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand.