- 3. Stretch, straighten, make tight or tense.
- 4. Distress, perplex, pinch, embarrass, press.
Straitened, a. Distressed, perplexed, embarrassed, pinched, limited.
Strait-jacket, n. Strait-waistcoat.
Strait-laced, a. Strict, rigid, formal, stiff, stern, rigorous, austere, uncompromising.
Straitness, n.
- 1. Strictness, rigor, severity, narrowness.
- 2. Difficulty, distress, trouble.
- 3. Want, scarcity, insufficiency, narrowness.
Strait-waistcoat, n. Strait-jacket.
Strake, n. (Ship building.) Streak, range of planks (on the side of a vessel).
Stramonium, n. Thorn-apple, stramony, Jamestown weed, apple-Peru (Datura stramonium).
Stramony, n. See Stramonium.
Strand, n. Beach, shore, coast.
Strand, v. n. Run aground, get ashore, be wrecked, be cast away.
Stranded, a. Aground, ashore, wrecked, cast away.
Strange, a.
- 1. Foreign, outlandish, exotic, alien.
- 2. New, novel.
- 3. Unusual, uncommon, irregular, odd, singular, peculiar, particular, exceptional, rare, extraordinary,
curious.
- 4. Unnatural, abnormal, anomalous, extraordinary, wonderful, inexplicable, marvellous, preternatural,
unaccountable, mysterious, unique, unheard of, out of the way.
- 5. Odd, eccentric, queer, peculiar, bizarre.
- 6. Unacquainted, unknown, unfamiliar.