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weird
[ weerd ]
adjective
Wow, that’s a weird getup.
I value our friendship, and I’m afraid if we start dating, it’ll get weird between us.
- Informal. not functioning properly or as expected; unstable; broken:
My connection is weird so I can’t tell if they’re getting my messages or not.
The car is great except for a weird compressor that doesn't work when you run the AC at a red light.
- involving or suggesting the supernatural; unearthly or uncanny:
a weird sound;
weird lights.
Synonyms: unearthly, spectral, preternatural, unnatural, janky, strange, peculiar, eccentric
Antonyms: unexceptional, ordinary, normal
- Archaic. concerned with or controlling fate or destiny.
verb phrase
- Slang. to feel or cause to feel discomfort, confusion, or fear because of perceived strangeness:
The cultlike admiration of some of her followers always weirded me out a little.
weird
/ wɪəd /
adjective
- suggestive of or relating to the supernatural; eerie
- strange or bizarre
- archaic.of or relating to fate or the Fates
noun
- archaic.
- fate or destiny
- one of the Fates
- dree one's weirdSee dree
verb
- tr to destine or ordain by fate; predict
Derived Forms
- ˈweirdly, adverb
- ˈweirdness, noun
Other Words From
- weird·ly adverb
- weird·ness noun
Word History and Origins
Word History and Origins
Origin of weird1
Synonym Study
Example Sentences
We can discuss how incredibly weird a lot of the stuff we are all taught is normal actually is!
“It’s not that these events are weird one-off things … this is actually a pretty significant source of mortality,” says Eli Strauss, a behavioral ecologist at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln.
Perhaps you have mentioned your camp-bathroom woes in conversation, and perhaps all of your friends, almost without fail, have said, “This might sound weird, but I have definitely used my kid’s potty-training toilet in an emergency.”
“It’s weird to think that this object should be becoming a comet when I’m retiring,” Volk says.
SNL writer Sam Jay’s hour-long stand-up special is a weird and wonderful collection of everything that comes into her head in the wee hours when everyone else is asleep.
To make it work almost everything else about these shows has to seem factual which is why many look like a weird Celebrity Sims.
And, as the enigmatic front man to an avant garde indie rock group, he is droll, perceptive, and splendidly weird.
Actually, the guessing game is over; the weddings have begun, as have weird attempts to circumvent our constitutional democracy.
It was fearless and raunchy and fun and ridiculous and weird and feminist and powerful.
What follows is hysterical, painful, weird, and strangely touching—a true Festivus for the rest of us.
They are so rich in harmony, so weird, so wild, that when you hear them you are like a sea-weed cast upon the bosom of the ocean.
Her bare shoulders looked waxen and unnatural in the weird light which shone down upon them.
It's seeing people and objects in their weird entirety, in their true and complete shapes, that is so distressing.
The oaks were either dead or dying, and the whole district had an inexpressibly blasted and weird appearance.
As if to deepen the effect of the weird stage setting, Nature contrived that all the winds which blew here should blow mournfully.
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How Do You Spell weird?
Spelling tips for weird
The word weird is hard to spell because the i goes before the e in many common words, like believe or chief, but weird doesn’t follow this rule.
How to spell weird: To spell weird, remember that weird is weird; it doesn’t follow the classic “I before E except after C” rule. Another way to remember the order of i and e in weird is that it looks weird if you spell it wierd.
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