Difference between Strange and Unknown

What is the difference between Strange and Unknown?

Strange as an adjective is not normal; odd, unusual, surprising, out of the ordinary. while Unknown as an adjective is not known; unidentified; not well known.

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: I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.

Unknown

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Not known; unidentified; not well known.

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A variable (usually x, y or z) whose value is to be found.Any fact or place about which nothing is known (as in the phrase "into the unknown").

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

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