Definition of WEIRD

weird

Meanings

Plural: weirds

Noun

  • 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.

Origin / 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”). Doublet of wyrd. More at worth.
Obsolete by the 16th century in English, but reintroduced from Middle Scots weird, whence Shakespeare borrowed it in naming the Weird Sisters (originally Weyward Sisters, the Three Witches), reintroducing it to English. The senses “abnormal”, “strange” etc. arose via reinterpretation of Weird Sisters and date from after this reintroduction.

Synonyms

5150, 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, eldritch, 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, Norns, 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 a clockwork orange, queer as a coot, queer as a nine bob note, queer as a three dollar bill, queer as Dick's hatband, rare, ripshit, rum, rummy, screwy, selcouth, seld, sicko, singular, spooky, squirrelly, starkers, strange, strangely, tonto, trippy, unbalanced, uncanny, uncommon, unconventional, unearthly, unexpected, unreasonable, unsane, unusual, unwonted, wackadoodle, wacko, weird, weirdly, weirdsome, whackjob, whacko, whacky, witchish, witchlike, witchly, witchy, wode, wyrd, Wyrd, yampy, zany

Scrabble Score: 9

weird is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL word
weird is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
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Words With Friends Score: 9

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