Regular and Strange

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Regular adjective - Having or showing the qualities associated with the members of a particular group or kind.

Usage example: was just a regular guy who preferred hanging out with friends

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Strange is an antonym for regular.

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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Regular is an antonym for strange in topics: odd, alien, exotic, deviating.

Nearby Words: strangeness, stranger, strangely

Synopsis: Button Stitch is an excessively regular mare with excessively regular habits, but something strange has begun to happen to her in the wake of Discord's rampage.

Source: Fanfic Recs / My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic General R To Z
Arbitrary Skepticism: Characters who deal with the strange and bizarre on a regular basis are skeptical when they run into something strange and bizarre.

Source: Hypocrite
One of the segments was a Blair Witch style 'recovered footage' short story, where we'd watch regular home movies that invariably took a turn for the strange.

Source: Defanged Horrors

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