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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. adj. Of, relating to, or suggestive of the preternatural or supernatural.
  2. adj. Of a strikingly odd or unusual character; strange.
  3. adj. Archaic Of or relating to fate or the Fates.
  4. n. Fate; destiny.
  5. n. One's assigned lot or fortune, especially when evil.
  6. n. Greek & Roman Mythology One of the Fates.
  7. v. Slang To experience or cause to experience an odd, unusual, and sometimes uneasy sensation. Often used with out.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. Fate; destiny; luck.
  2. n. A prediction.
  3. n. A spell; a charm.
  4. n. That which comes to pass; a fact.
  5. n. The Fates personified.
  6. Connected with fate or destiny; able to influence fate.
  7. Of or pertaining to witches or witchcraft; supernatural; hence, unearthly; suggestive of witches, witchery, or unearthliness; wild; uncanny.
  8. To destine; doom; change by witchcraft or sorcery.
  9. To warn solemnly; adjure.

Wiktionary

  1. n. archaic, except in Scots Fate; destiny; luck.
  2. n. A prediction.
  3. n. A spell or charm.
  4. n. That which comes to pass; a fact.
  5. n. archaic, in the plural The Fates (personified).
  6. adj. Connected with fate or destiny; able to influence fate.
  7. adj. Of or pertaining to witches or witchcraft; supernatural; unearthly; suggestive of witches, witchcraft, or unearthliness; wild; uncanny.
  8. adj. Having supernatural or preternatural power.
  9. adj. Having an unusually strange character or behaviour.
  10. adj. Deviating from the normal; bizarre.
  11. adj. archaic Of or pertaining to the Fates.
  12. v. transitive To destine; doom; change by witchcraft or sorcery.
  13. v. transitive To warn solemnly; adjure.
  14. v. transitive To make (one) feel weird; make uneasy or uncomfortable due to weirdness; strike one as being weird.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. Obs. or Scot. Fate; destiny; one of the Fates, or Norns; also, a prediction.
  2. n. Obs. or Scot. A spell or charm.
  3. adj. Of or pertaining to fate; concerned with destiny.
  4. adj. Of or pertaining to witchcraft; caused by, or suggesting, magical influence; supernatural; unearthly; wild.
  5. v. Scot. To foretell the fate of; to predict; to destine to.

WordNet 3.0

  1. adj. strikingly odd or unusual
  2. n. fate personified; any one of the three Weird Sisters
  3. adj. suggesting the operation of supernatural influences

Etymologies

  1. From Middle English werde, wierde, wirde, wyrede, wurde, from Old English wyrd, wurd ("that which happens, fate, chance, fortune, destiny, Fate, the Fates, Providence, event, phenomenon, transaction, fact, deed"), from Proto-Germanic *wurdiz (“fate, destiny”), from Proto-Indo-European *wert- (“to turn, wind”). Cognate with Middle Low German wrd, wrth ("fate, death"), Middle High German wurt ("fate, death"), Icelandic urður ("fate"). Related to Old English weorþan ("to become"). More at worth. (Wiktionary)
  2. Middle English werde, fate, having power to control fate, from Old English wyrd, fate. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

Examples

  • “Like Hawthorne's, like the works of our great symbolists, they are restricted by a sense of some obtaining conception, some weird metaphysical _weird_ or preconception.”

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  • “I would argue that the term weird, far from being pejorative, is instead intended to express and celebrate the extraordinary uniqueness of medieval animals.”

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  • “By week's end, the Obama folks were desperately trying to walk this back -- going so far as to suggest that anyone on the campaign staff who used the word "weird" would be fired.”

    The Huffington Post: Chris Weigant: Friday Talking Points -- Corporations Are People, Mitt?

  • “You mentioned the rabbi, you mentioned your priest, you may have friends, you may have what you call the weird cousin Willie, if you actually have one, I don't know if you do or not, but you can create ...”

    CNN Transcript Dec 10, 2009

  • “They are now detaining a number of POWs, some believed to be Fedayeen, 31 they counted yesterday late, and the way they found them in a house off the highway on the way up here, they found them clustered together and they looked at their arms, Daryn, and six had these very what they call weird tattoos, an F with wings coming out, which indicates Saddam Fedayeen, a paramilitary group.”

    CNN Transcript Apr 4, 2003

  • “The word "weird" is in itself quite an evolved beast.”

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  • “Based on my as yet highly limited experience, the term weird fiction seems both slippery and all-encompassing; it’s hardly as ‘solid’ – commercially and culturally – as horror, fantasy, sci-fi and its subsets… and yet, it seems to take in all of these genres.”

    Testing the Weird

  • “Yeah, seems like a little bit of something from the Miramax playbook with regard to Asian films. wedgeee actually ... that trailer for the good the bad and the weird is awful!!! watch some of the offical korean ones. they are MUCH better cut and evoke a ton more atmosphere!!! the good the bad the weird is a brilliant film, cant say enough how much i love it. seen it at least 4 times now. evilninjax”

    This Week In Trailers: Bananas!*, Shaolin, Legacy, The Good, The Bad and The Weird, I Know You Know | /Film

  • “Recently saw this movie called “Perfume: a murder story” (really fuxin weird flick, not enough explosions) and this image looks very similar to a scene from the movie.”

    Ponte Vecchio | My[confined]Space

  • “- Source: Murder verdict reinstated for killer in weird plot to take over Marin, Bob Egelko, San Francisco Chronicle, Jan. 6, 2009 — Summarized by Religion News Blog”

    Court Restores Murder Conviction Of Man In Marin Pendragon Cult

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synonyms (13)

Words with the same meaning

  1. fate
  2. destiny
  1. supernatural
  2. unearthly
  1. wild
  2. predict
  1. eerie
  2. eery
  1. uncanny
  2. witching
  1. eldritch
  2. elvish
  1. elfish

equivalents (3)

Other words for ‘weird’

  1. strange
  1. unusual
  1. supernatural

hypernyms (1)

Words that are more generic or abstract

  1. anglo-saxon deity

same context (7)

Words that are found in similar contexts

  1. peculiar
  1. bizarre
  1. mysterious
  1. awful
  1. eerie
  1. funny
  1. magical

rhymes (32)

Words with the same terminal sound

  1. Beard
  2. adhered
  3. appeared
  4. beard
  5. bioengineered
  6. cashiered
  1. cheered
  2. cleared
  3. cohered
  4. commandeered
  5. disappeared
  6. eared
  1. feared
  2. geared
  3. interfered
  4. jeered
  5. neared
  6. peered
  1. persevered
  2. pioneered
  3. premiered
  4. reappeared
  5. reared
  6. revered
  1. seared
  2. sheard
  3. sheared
  4. smeared
  5. sneered
  6. steered
  1. veered
  2. volunteered

reverse dictionary (23)

Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. wierd
  2. weirdly
  3. werd
  4. uncanny
  1. eerie
  2. unearthly
  3. elfish
  4. elvish
  1. weirdness
  2. whoop-hymn
  3. witching
  4. shadowless
  1. eery
  2. eldrich
  3. ghast
  4. weird
  1. wyrd
  2. strange
  3. unusual
  4. wird
  1. wizardly
  2. railway
  3. wild

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Words tagged ‘weird’

  1. adenochirapsology
  1. different
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  1. paprika
  1. quixotic

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