weird
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weird
involving or suggesting the supernatural: a weird glowing object in the sky; fantastic; bizarre: That’s a weird costume you are wearing.
Not to be confused with:
wired – equipped with wires; made of wire; consisting of or made of wires: a wired barrier; connected electronically to computer networks; a feeling of excitement or anticipation; edgy: You’re certainly wired today.
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weird
(wîrd)adj. weird·er, weird·est
1. Strikingly odd or unusual, especially in an unsettling way; strange: He lives in a weird old house on a dark street. Your neighbor is said to be a little weird. I felt a little weird after drinking that tea.
2. Suggestive of the supernatural: weird stories about ghosts.
3. Archaic Of or relating to fate or the Fates.
n. Archaic
1. Fate; destiny.
2. One's assigned lot or fortune, especially when evil.
tr. & intr.v. weird·ed, weird·ing, weirds
Slang To experience or cause to experience an odd, unusual, and sometimes uneasy sensation. Often used with out.
[Middle English werd, wird, fate (often in the pl. wirdes, the Fates), from Old English wyrd; see wer- in Indo-European roots.]
weird′ly adv.
weird′ness n.
Synonyms: weird, eerie, uncanny, unearthly
These adjectives refer to what is of a mysteriously strange, usually frightening nature. Weird may suggest the operation of supernatural influences, or merely the odd or unusual: "Nameless voices—weird sounds that awake in a Southern forest at twilight's approach,—were crying a sinister welcome to the settling gloom" (Kate Chopin)."The platypus ... seemed so weird when first discovered that a specimen sent to a museum was thought to be a hoax: bits of mammal and bits of bird stitched together" (Richard Dawkins).
Something eerie inspires fear or uneasiness and implies a sinister influence: "His white countenance was rendered eerie by the redness of the sagging lids below his eyes" (John Updike).
Uncanny refers to what is impossible to explain or accept: "My mother had an uncanny ability to see right through to my motives. At the time I wondered if she had ESP" (Porter Shreve).
Something unearthly seems so strange and unnatural as to come from or belong to another world: "The joy of having escaped death made the unearthly ruins of Hamburg seem more like a smoldering paradise than the purgatory other people thought our once lovely city had become" (Marione Ingram).
These adjectives refer to what is of a mysteriously strange, usually frightening nature. Weird may suggest the operation of supernatural influences, or merely the odd or unusual: "Nameless voices—weird sounds that awake in a Southern forest at twilight's approach,—were crying a sinister welcome to the settling gloom" (Kate Chopin)."The platypus ... seemed so weird when first discovered that a specimen sent to a museum was thought to be a hoax: bits of mammal and bits of bird stitched together" (Richard Dawkins).
Something eerie inspires fear or uneasiness and implies a sinister influence: "His white countenance was rendered eerie by the redness of the sagging lids below his eyes" (John Updike).
Uncanny refers to what is impossible to explain or accept: "My mother had an uncanny ability to see right through to my motives. At the time I wondered if she had ESP" (Porter Shreve).
Something unearthly seems so strange and unnatural as to come from or belong to another world: "The joy of having escaped death made the unearthly ruins of Hamburg seem more like a smoldering paradise than the purgatory other people thought our once lovely city had become" (Marione Ingram).
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weird
(wɪəd)adj
1. (Alternative Belief Systems) suggestive of or relating to the supernatural; eerie
2. strange or bizarre
3. (Classical Myth & Legend) archaic of or relating to fate or the Fates
vb
(tr) Scot to destine or ordain by fate; predict
[Old English (ge)wyrd destiny; related to weorthan to become, Old Norse urthr bane, Old Saxon wurd; see worth2]
ˈweirdly adv
ˈweirdness n
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weird
(wɪərd)adj. -er, -est,
n. adj.
1. involving or suggesting the supernatural; unearthly or uncanny: a weird sound.
2. strange; unusual; peculiar: a weird costume.
3. Archaic. concerned with or controlling fate or destiny.
n. Chiefly Scot. 4. fate; destiny.
[before 900; (n.) Middle English (northern form of wird), Old English wyrd; akin to worth2; (adj.) Middle English, orig. attributive n. in phrase werde sisters the Fates (popularized as appellation of the witches in Macbeth)]
weird′ly, adv.
weird′ness, n.
syn: weird, eerie, uncanny refer to that which is mysterious and apparently outside natural law. weird suggests the intervention of supernatural influences in human affairs: weird doings in the haunted house; a weird coincidence. eerie refers to something ghostly that makes one's flesh creep: eerie moans from a deserted house. uncanny refers to an extraordinary or remarkable thing that seems to defy the laws established by experience: an uncanny ability to recall numbers.
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weird
Past participle: weirded
Gerund: weirding
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| Noun | 1. | Weird - fate personified; any one of the three Weird Sisters Anglo-Saxon deity - (Anglo-Saxon mythology) a deity worshipped by the Anglo-Saxons |
| Adj. | 1. |  weird - suggesting the operation of supernatural influences; "an eldritch screech"; "the three weird sisters"; "stumps...had uncanny shapes as of monstrous creatures"- John Galsworthy; "an unearthly light"; "he could hear the unearthly scream of some curlew piercing the din"- Henry Kingsleysupernatural - not existing in nature or subject to explanation according to natural laws; not physical or material; "supernatural forces and occurrences and beings" |
| 2. | weird - strikingly odd or unusual; "some trick of the moonlight; some weird effect of shadow"- Bram Stoker |
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weird
adjective
1. strange, odd, unusual, bizarre, ghostly, mysterious, queer, unearthly, eerie, grotesque, supernatural, unnatural, far-out (slang), uncanny, spooky (informal), creepy (informal), eldritch (poetic) I had such a weird dream last night.
strange natural, normal, regular, usual, ordinary, typical, mundane
strange natural, normal, regular, usual, ordinary, typical, mundane
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weird
adjective1. Of a mysteriously strange and usually frightening nature:
Informal: spooky.
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Translations
عَجِيبغَريب
podivný
underlig
omituinen
čudan
annarlegur, dularfullur
変な
별난
dīvainsmistisks
čuden
konstig
แปลกประหลาด
kỳ dị
weird
[wɪəd] ADJ (weirder (compar) (weirdest (superl))) → raro, extrañothe weird thing is that → lo raro es que ...
all sorts of weird and wonderful things → todo tipo de cosas extraordinarias
Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005
weird
[ˈwɪərd] adj [person, appearance] → bizarre; [experience, coincidence, feeling] → bizarreIt felt weird going back to Liverpool → Cela faisait bizarre de revenir à Liverpool.
Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005
weird
Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007
weird
[wɪəd] adj (-er (comp) (-est (superl))) → strano/a, bizzarro/aCollins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995
weird
(wiəd) adjective odd or very strange. a weird story; She wears weird clothes.
ˈweirdly adverbˈweirdness noun
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weird
→ عَجِيب podivný underlig seltsam αλλόκοτος extraño omituinen bizarre čudan bizzarro 変な 별난 vreemd underlig dziwny esquisito сверхъестественный konstig แปลกประหลาด acayip kỳ dị 怪异的Multilingual Translator © HarperCollins Publishers 2009