Did you know? Shakespeare's Connection to Weird You may know weird as a generalized term describing something unusual, but this word also has older meanings that are more specific. Weird derives from the Old English noun wyrd, essentially meaning "fate."
WEIRD definition: 1. very strange and unusual, unexpected, or not natural: 2. very strange and unusual, unexpected…. Learn more.
“Weird” refers to something that is strange, unusual, or inexplicable. It’s often used to describe situations, events, or appearances that deviate from the norm.
Call something weird when it’s strange, bizarre, or strikes you as odd. Putting peanut butter on pizza is weird. So is most abstract, conceptual performance art.
- involving or suggesting the supernatural; unearthly or uncanny: a weird sound. 2. strange; unusual; peculiar: a weird costume.
weird (third-person singular simple present weirds, present participle weirding, simple past and past participle weirded) (transitive) To destine; doom; change by witchcraft or sorcery.
If you describe something or someone as weird, you mean that they are strange. That first day was weird. He's different. He's weird. In the 70s, we did a lot of creative things but also some weird things. It must be really weird to be rich. It felt weird going back to Liverpool. ...weirdly wonderful sculptures. ...difficult men who dressed weirdly.
Definition of weird adjective in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
WEIRD definition: strange; odd; bizarre. See examples of weird used in a sentence.
Weird definition: Strikingly odd or unusual, especially in an unsettling way; strange.