weird
IPA: wˈɪrd
noun
- (archaic) Fate; destiny; luck.
- A prediction.
- (obsolete, Scotland) A spell or charm.
- That which comes to pass; a fact.
- (archaic, in the plural, personification) The Fates.
- (informal) Weirdness.
verb
- (transitive) To destine; doom; change by witchcraft or sorcery.
- (transitive) To warn solemnly; adjure.
adjective
- Having an unusually strange character or behaviour.
- Deviating from the normal; bizarre.
- Relating to weird fiction ("a macabre subgenre of speculative fiction").
- (archaic) Of or pertaining to the Fates.
- (archaic) Connected with fate or destiny; able to influence fate.
- (archaic) Of or pertaining to witches or witchcraft; supernatural; unearthly; suggestive of witches, witchcraft, or unearthliness; wild; uncanny.
- (archaic) Having supernatural or preternatural power.
- Acronym of Western, educated, industrialized, rich and democratic. [Of, situated in, or related to the West]
adverb
- (nonstandard) In a strange manner.
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Examples of "weird" in Sentences
- The word "weird" is in itself quite an evolved beast.
- I would argue that the term weird, far from being pejorative, is instead intended to express and celebrate the extraordinary uniqueness of medieval animals.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 ...
- 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.
- 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.
- 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
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