weird

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  1. adjective Of, relating to, or suggestive of the preternatural or supernatural.
  2. adjective Of a strikingly odd or unusual character; strange.
  3. adjective Archaic Of or relating to fate or the Fates.
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  • And that all stems from the perception of atheists as some kind of weird, way-out minority. —  Richard Dawkins on militant atheism
  • I had no use for the weird, anime version of Batman that had been running for some years, with its ape-like, barefoot Joker, so this new take came as a pleasant surprise for me. —  COMIXTALK
  • The other thing that's kind of weird is the inclusion of only one Constructicon, Long Haul. —  Branded in the 80s!
  • Seems kind of like a weird, archaic quirk of English. —  BTDF
  • That are kind of weird, as I stopped blogging in May 2007 and resumed more sporadically in September. —  The Cesspit. - Home of the fool (on a hill)
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peculiar ·  bizarre ·  mysterious ·  awful ·  eerie ·  funny ·  magical

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  1. Middle English werde, fate, having power to control fate, from Old English wyrd, fate; see wer-2 in Indo-European roots.

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  1. Formerly also wierd; from Middle English werde, wierde, wirde, wyrde, wurde, from Anglo-Saxon wyrd, wird, wurd, destiny, fate, also, personified, one of the Fates (= Old Saxon wurth = Middle Dutch wrd, wrth = Old High German wurt, Middle High German wurth, fate, death, = Icelandic urthr, fate, one of the three Norns or Fates), from weorthan (preterit plural wurdon), etc., become, happen: see worth. The spelling weird is Scots
  2. Not directly from weird, n., but first, in the phrase weird sisters, an awkward expression, literally ‘the fate sisters,’ apparently meant for ‘the Sister Fates’; but perhaps weird was thought to be an actual adjective meaning ‘fatal.’ No such adjective use is known in Middle English The second use (def. 2) is due to an erroneous notion of the meaning of the phrase the weird sisters, which has been taken to mean ‘the sisters who look witch-like or uncanny.’
  3. Formerly also wierd; from weird, n.
 

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