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weird
/ˈwiɚd/
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What does weird mean?
adjective
- Having an unusually strange character or behaviour.
- Deviating from the normal; bizarre.
- Relating to weird fiction ("a macabre subgenre of speculative fiction").
More meanings (13)
adjective
- Belonging, pertaining, or related to fate, destiny, or to the Fates; able to influence fate.
- Related to witches or witchcraft; supernatural; unearthly; suggestive of witches, witchcraft or unearthliness; uncanny; unearthly.
- Having super- or preternatural power.
- Acronym of Western, educated, industrialized, rich, and democratic.
noun
- A prediction.
- That which comes to pass; a fact.
- Weirdness.
- (archaic) Fate; destiny; luck.
- (obsolete) A spell or charm.
- (archaic) The Fates.
verb
- To destine; doom; change by witchcraft or sorcery.
- To warn solemnly; adjure.
adverb
- In a strange manner.
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IPA pronunciation
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He jumped out of bed in the weird light, took the letter, pulled out the flimsy sheet, shook the envelope—searched it.
Again was I suddenly recalled to my immediate surroundings by a repetition of the weird moan from the depths of the cave.
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The sound of the grinding is heard in the street and is usually accompanied by a song that sounds weird but musical.
To dream of weird light, or if the light goes out, you will be disagreeably surprised by some undertaking resulting in nothing.
All over America you will find these weird Bible-cults, some of them pathetic, some of them dangerous, some of them merely grotesque.