Weird

Quick meaning: Weird is an adjective meaning Having an unusually strange character or behaviour.

Meaning

Having an unusually strange character or behaviour.

More Meanings

1. Deviating from the normal; bizarre.
2. Relating to weird fiction ("a macabre subgenre of speculative fiction").
3. (archaic) Of or pertaining to the Fates.
4. (archaic) Connected with fate or destiny; able to influence fate.
5. (archaic) Having supernatural or preternatural power.
6. (archaic) Fate; destiny; luck.
7. (archaic) Of or pertaining to witches or witchcraft; supernatural; unearthly; suggestive of witches, witchcraft, or unearthliness; wild; uncanny.

Example Sentences

a weird story

There are lots of weird people in this place.

It was weird for him to watch boys play with Barbie dolls.

It was quite weird to bump into all my ex-girlfriends on the same day.

Word Forms

• weirder
• weirdest
• weirds
• weirding
• weirded

Synonyms for weird

Depending on context, synonyms include odd, oddball, peculiar, strange, wacko, bananas.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include strange, uncanny, eldritch, unusual, unearthly, supernatural.

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