Difference between Peculiar and Strange

What is the difference between Peculiar and Strange?

Peculiar as an adjective is out of the ordinary; odd; curious; unusual. while Strange as an adjective is not normal; odd, unusual, surprising, out of the ordinary.

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.

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

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