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Weird Meaning

/ˈwɪə(ɹ)d/

Definition, CEFR level B1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.

Definition

adjHaving an unusually strange character or behaviour.

adjDeviating from the normal; bizarre.

Sentence Examples

Uh, now it's really weird...

People from Madrid are weird.

I had a really weird dream last night.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Synonyms:

unusual strange supernatural

Antonyms:

natural familiar

CEFR Practice Quiz

Because the man wore a full clown costume to a formal wedding, everyone thought his behavior was very ____.

CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)

The movie was a bit ____, with several many strange and very unusual scenes that I didn't quite understand today.

Word Origin & History

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). Doublet of wyrd, a reborrowing of the original sense and spelling. Obsolete by the 16th century in English, it was reintroduced by Shakespeare, who borrowed Middle Scots weird as weyward in the name of the Weyward Sisters (later respelt as Weird Sisters), meaning “Sisters of Fate”. The senses “abnormal”, “strange” etc., arising from a reinterpretatation of the Sisters' naming, are posterior to his borrowing.

Literary Quotations & Historical Citations

"The best recent VC discs start from the relentlessness of gabber and digital hardcore, and yank it in a weirder direction." — 1999, SPIN, volume 15, number 3, page 145:

"[…] filled with laphet. Fermented tea leaves kneaded with peanut oil, laphet is, hands-down, Myanmar's weirdest and most wonderful contribution to world cuisine." — 2002 August, Gourmet, volume 62, numbers 7-12, page 71:

"In his introduction to the 1955 volume, [Ray] Bradbury singles out these stories as oddities in his canon — he wrote this kind of tale before his twenty-sixth birthday (1946), and rarely since. They are pure fantasy of the "weird" sort and include some of Bradbury's most striking pieces: "The Scythe" (1943), "The Lake" (1944), "The Jar" (1944), "Skeleton" (1945), and "The Small Assassin" (1946)" — 1978, Jeffrey Helterman, Richard Layman, editors, Dictionary of Literary Biography, Volume 2: American Novelists Since World War II, Detroit, M.A.: Gale Research Company, →ISBN, page 62, column 1:

"Whiles I ſtood rapt in the wonder of it, came Miſſiues from the King, who all-hail'd me Thane of Cawdor, by which Title before, these weyward Sisters saluted me, and referr'd me to the comming on of time, with haile, King that ſhalt be." — c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene v], page 134, column 1:

"Those sweet, low tones, that seemed like a weird incantation." — 1847 November 1, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Evangeline, a Tale of Acadie, Boston, Mass.: William D. Ticknor & Company, →OCLC, part I, page 134:

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