weird

ˈwɪə(ɹ)d

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#1·2h ago

Having an unusually strange character or behaviour.

There are lots of weird people in this place.

Origin: From , wierde, wirde, wyrede, wurde, from , from , from , from . Cognate with . Related to . . More at worth. Obsolete by the 16th century in English, but reintroduced from , 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. Origin information sourced from Wiktionary contributors (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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#2·2h ago

Deviating from the normal; bizarre.

It was quite weird to bump into all my ex-girlfriends on the same day.

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#3·2h ago

Relating to weird fiction ("a macabre subgenre of speculative fiction").

It was weird for him to watch boys play with Barbie dolls.

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