fremd

1 9.9

Not known or familiar to the people there

adjective

Archaic

: extraño

The villagers regarded the traveler as fremd and kept their distance.

Examples

She wore a fremd dress that no one in the town had seen before.
His ideas seemed fremd to those who valued tradition.
This place feels fremd to me!
He felt fremd in the new city.
The villagers regarded the traveler as fremd and kept their distance.
She wore a fremd dress that no one in the town had seen before.
His ideas seemed fremd to those who valued tradition.

Synonyms

strange

vsfremd

386 2.3

Not known or familiar to you

is an older term for that same new or odd sense

alien

vsfremd

265 4.1

From another place and not familiar there

is the archaic form used for outside origins or odd appearance

unfamiliar

vsfremd

102 4.4

Not known or seen before

is older and archaic while keeping the same basic meaning

foreign

vsfremd

35 3.2

Not naturally part of a body or object and coming from outside

is an old-fashioned word for that outside or not native sense

Antonyms

familiar

774 1.0

Well known because you have seen or experienced it before

domestic

481 2.8

Made or grown in your country, not in other countries

How Strange

bizarre

389 5.9

strange

386 2.3

fremd

Archaic

1 9.9

odd

878 1.0

unusual

∞ 2.2

Surface Forms

fremd positive

Etymology

Fremd comes from an old German word that meant 'from far away' or 'not known'. A helpful way to remember fremd is to notice it looks like 'friend' but without the 'i', so it points to someone who is not familiar — someone 'foreign' or 'strange'.