weird

Plural: weirds

Noun

• Fate or destiny; a person's appointed lot.
• fate personified; any one of the three Weird Sisters
• Fate; destiny; luck.
• A prediction.
• A spell or charm.
• That which comes to pass; a fact.
• The Fates.
• Weirdness.

Adjective Satellite

• suggesting the operation of supernatural influences; ; ; - John Galsworthy; ; - Henry Kingsley
  • "the three weird sisters"
• strikingly odd or unusual; - Bram Stoker
  • "some trick of the moonlight; some weird effect of shadow"

Adj

• Having an unusually strange character or behaviour.
• Deviating from the normal; bizarre.
• Relating to weird fiction ("a macabre subgenre of speculative fiction").
• Of or pertaining to the Fates.
• Connected with fate or destiny; able to influence fate.
• Of or pertaining to witches or witchcraft; supernatural; unearthly; suggestive of witches, witchcraft, or unearthliness; wild; uncanny.
• Having supernatural or preternatural power.

Verb

• To destine; doom; change by witchcraft or sorcery.
• To warn solemnly; adjure.

Adv

• In a strange manner.

Adjective

• Mysteriously strange, eerie, or unusual.

Examples

• a weird story
• His Words With Friends opponent made a weird move, leaving an open triple word score.
• It was his weird to draw all the high-value tiles in the Scrabble game.
• It was quite weird to bump into all my ex-girlfriends on the same day.
• There are lots of weird people in this place.
• There was a weird light shining above the hill.

Synonyms

eldritch, uncanny, unearthly, Wyrd, 5150, Norns, aberrant, abnormal, alien, anomalous, apeshit, as queer as Dick's hatband, bananas, barking, barking mad, barmy, bat-shit, batchy, batcrap, batpoop, bats, batshit, batty, bizarre, bonkers, bread baskets, buggish, buggy, bughouse, chance, cra-cra, cracked, crackers, cray, cray-cray, crazed, crazy, crazy as a bedbug, crazy as a cootie, crazy as a cootie bug, crazy as a pet coon, cuckoo, curious, daffy, daft, demented, deranged, destin, destined, destiny, deviant, discrepant, distraught, disturbed, doolally, doom, doomed, dotty, eccentric, eerie, enchantment, errant, exceptional, extraordinary, fatality, fate, fated, fateful, fatidic, fey, forby, foredoom, foreordained, foreordination, foretale, foretelling, fortune, freak, freakish, freaky, fremd, fruit loops, fucked in the head, fucked up, funny, gaga, harebrained, hatstand, heteroclite, hinky, incongruitous, incongruous, insane, irregular, kismet, kooky, loco, loon, loony, loony tunes, loopy, lot, lunatic, mad, mental, mentally ill, meshigener, meshugge, monstrous, moonsick, non compos mentis, nonsane, nonstandard, nucking futs, nut, nut job, nutballs, nuts, nutso, nutter, nutty, odd, oddball, off the beam, off the chain, orlay, out of the ordinary, outlandish, outré, over the edge, peculiar, portion, potty, predestination, predestined, predestiny, predevote, prediction, preordained, preordination, prognostication, psycho, psychoceramic, psychotic, qadar, quaint, queer, queer as Dick's hatband, queer as a clockwork orange, queer as a coot, queer as a nine bob note, queer as a three dollar bill, rare, ripshit, rum, rummy, screwy, selcouth, seld, sicko, singular, spooky, squirrelly, starkers, strange, strangely, tonto, trippy, unbalanced, uncommon, unconventional, unexpected, unreasonable, unsane, unusual, unwonted, wackadoodle, wacko, weird, weirdly, weirdsome, whackjob, whacko, whacky, witchish, witchlike, witchly, witchy, wode, wyrd, yampy, zany

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