Customary and Strange

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Customary adjective - Accepted, used, or practiced by most people.

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Strange is an antonym for customary.

Nearby Words: custom, customarily

Strange adjective - Different from the ordinary in a way that causes curiosity or suspicion.

Usage example: the strange smell we'd noticed turned out, unhappily, to be from the dinner our host was making

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Customary is an antonym for strange in deviating topic.

Nearby Words: strangeness, stranger, strangely

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