weird
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.
Archaic. concerned with or controlling fate or destiny.
weird out, 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.
Origin of weird
1synonym study For weird
Other words for weird
Opposites for weird
Other words from weird
- weird·ly, adverb
- weird·ness, noun
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How to use weird in a sentence
What the weirdest, wildest, most successful participatory project in history tells us about working together.
Wetlands, based on the bestselling German erotic novel of the same name, is the year's dirtiest—and weirdest—movie.
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It was the weirdest battle ever fought, but its true worth could only have been detected by another telepath.
The Penal Cluster | Ivar Jorgensen (AKA Randall Garrett)Of all the strange, weird monsters with which I have ever had to deal, this water one seems somehow weirdest.
Book of Monsters | David Fairchild and Marian Hubbard (Bell) FairchildShe told herself instead that of all man creatures she had ever encountered, this boy from India was certainly the weirdest.
Green Valley | Katharine ReynoldsIt was the largest and somebody said the weirdest Sunday-school class ever seen in Green Valley.
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British Dictionary definitions for weird
/ (wɪəd) /
suggestive of or relating to the supernatural; eerie
strange or bizarre
archaic of or relating to fate or the Fates
archaic, mainly Scot
fate or destiny
one of the Fates
dree one's weird Scot See dree
(tr) Scot to destine or ordain by fate; predict
Origin of weird
1- See also weird out
Derived forms of weird
- weirdly, adverb
- weirdness, noun
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