weird
//ˈwɪə(ɹ)d//
informalForms
- Comparative
- weirder
- Superlative
- weirdest
- Plural
- weirds
- present (v1)
- weird
- past (v2)
- weirded
- past participle (v3)
- weirded
- present participle
- weirding
- 3rd person singular
- weirds
Definitions
1.Having an unusually strange character or behaviour.
- There are lots of weird people in this place.
2.Deviating from the normal; bizarre.
- It was weird for him to watch boys play with Barbie dolls.
- It was quite weird to bump into all my ex-girlfriends on the same day.
- The best recent VC discs start from the relentlessness of gabber and digital hardcore, and yank it in a weirder direction.
3.Belonging, pertaining, or related to fate, destiny, or to the Fates; able to influence fate.
4.Relating to weird fiction ("a macabre subgenre of speculative fiction").
1.A prediction.
2.That which comes to pass; a fact.
3.Weirdness.(colloquial)
1.To destine; doom; change by witchcraft or sorcery.
Frequency
Overall
Uncommon· #2038
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Uncommon
- General reading & writing
- Uncommon
- Academic
- Rare
- Literature
- Rare
Etymology
From Middle English werde, wierde, wirde, wyrede, wurde, from Old English wyrd (“fate”), from Proto-West Germanic *wurdi, from Proto-Germanic *wurdiz, from Proto-Indo-European *wert- (“to turn, wind”). Cognate with Icelandic urður (“fate”). Related to Old English weorþan (“to become”); more at worth (verb).