Weird

Definition: Weird

Weird

Adjective

1. Suggesting the operation of supernatural influences; "an eldritch screech"; "the three weird sisters"; "stumps...had uncanny shapes as of monstrous creatures"- John Galsworthy; "an unearthly light"; "he could hear the unearthly scream of some curlew piercing the din"- Henry Kingsley.

2. Strikingly odd or unusual; "some trick of the moonlight; some weird effect of shadow"- Bram Stoker.

Noun

1. Fate personified; one of the Three Weird Sisters.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "weird" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1386. (references)

Synonyms: Weird

Demon

Adjective: demonic, demonical, impish, demoniacal; fiendish, fiend-like; supernatural, weird, uncanny, unearthly, spectral; ghostly, ghost-like; elfin, elvin, elfish, elflike; haunted; pokerish.

Ridiculousness

Adjective: ridiculous, ludicrous; comical; droll, funny, laughable, pour rire, grotesque, farcical, odd; whimsical, whimsical as a dancing bear; fanciful, fantastic, queer, rum, quizzical, quaint, bizarre; screaming; eccentric; (unconformable); strange, outlandish, out of the way, baroque, weird; awkward; (ugly).

Sorcerer

Katerfelto, Cagliostro, Mesmer, Rosicrucian; Circe, siren, weird sisters.

Sorcery

Adjective: magic, magical; mystic, weird, cabalistic, talismanic, phylacteric, incantatory; charmed; Verb: Circean, odylic, voodoo.

Spell

Noun: spell, charm, incantation, exorcism, weird, cabala, exsufflation, cantrap, runes, abracadabra, open sesame, countercharm, Ephesian letters, bell book and candle, Mumbo Jumbo, evil eye, fee-faw-fum.

Crosswords: Weird

That's weird. (A Beautiful Mind; writing credit: Akiva Goldsman)

Honey, don't be weird! (American Beauty; writing credit: Alan Ball)

My thumbs have gone weird! (Withnail and I; writing credit: Bruce Robinson.)

It's weird to see you again (City of Angels; writing credit: Dana Stevens. Based on the screenplay for the 1997 film 'Der Himmel über Berlin')

I am redefining weird on an hourly basis (Analyze This; writing credit: Kenneth Lonergan; Peter Tolan)

Oh but they're weird and they're wonderful (Bennie And The Jets; performing artist: Elton John)

I will always be weird inside (Father Of Mine; performing artist: Everclear)

So weird (All Those Years Ago; performing artist: George Harrison)

It's kind of weird to me (Like I Love You; performing artist: Justin Timberlake)

Or those weird talk shows (I Can't Watch This; performing artist: Weird Al Yankovic)

A weird thing about humans is we work till we're sick to get a fortune, then pay a fortune to get well again. (references; author: unknown)

Aircraft Identification: If it's ugly, it's British; if it's weird, it's French; if it's ugly and weird, it's Russian. (references; author: unknown)

In the '60's people took acid to make the world weird. Now the world is weird, and people take Prozac to make it normal. (references; author: unknown)

The Weird World of LSD (1967)

They're a Weird Mob (1966)

The Story of Making the Film They're a Weird Mob (1966)

Weird Woman (1944)

The Weird Nemesis (1915)

Weird (performing artist: Hanson)

Weird Al Show Theme, The (performing artist: Weird Al Yankovic)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Ancient Sorceries and Other Weird Stories (reference)

• The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics) (reference)

• Weird and Wonderful Words (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Weird Nj (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• Weird Al Yankovic Live (reference)

• Weird Science (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Weird Tales (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

View of tent-like volcanic rocks that have been carved into weird shapes. This is the Kasha Katuwe National Monument, near Cochiti Pueblo between Santa Fe and Albuquerque, NM. Credit: Janice Gamby.

View of Viñales Valley, a tropical landscape in a setting of weird shaped hills of imposing grandeur. Credit: Library of Congress.

The Barnum and Bailey greatest show on earth--Chaste, charming, weird & wonderful supernatural illusions ... created by Roltair, the magician. Credit: Library of Congress.

Chas. H. Yale's fantastic spectacle, The evil eye, or The many, merry mishaps of Nid and the weird, wonderful wanderings of Nod. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Suddenly he realized what the answer to the problem was, and it was this, that something very weird was happening; and if something very weird was happening, he thought, he wanted it to be happening to him.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Expressions using "weird": draw one's weird ♦ the Three Weird Sisters ♦ the weird sisters ♦ Weird sisters ♦ with a weird effect. Additional references.

Beginning with "weird": weird-looking, weird-pop, weird-sound, weird-sounding.

Ending with "weird": home-of-the-weird, out-weird, super-weird.

Albanian

short (cup, draw, lot, portion), profeci (augury, auspice, prediction, prevision, prophecy, vaticination), i pazakontë (extraordinary, off beat, peculiar, ultra), i mistershëm (cryptic, hidden, magic, magical, mysterious, mystic, occult, puzzling, uncanny), i çuditshëm (bizarre, cranky, curious, dark, eccentric, electric, erratic, extraordinary, fanciful, fantastic, fantastical, frabjous, freak, freakish, funny, grotesque, kinky, odd, oddish, off beat, outlandish, peculiar, pixilated, puzzling, quaint, queer, quizzical, rummy, strange, surprising, uncanny, unco, unnatural, unusual, viewy, way out, whimsical), fat (chance, circumstance, cup, destiny, dole, doom, fate, fortune, hap, happiness, hit, kismet, lot, lottery, luck, mercy, portion, predetermine, share, spouse). (various references)

Arabic 

‏غير طبيعي (off color, off colour, preternatural, seedy, unnatural, violent), ‏غريب الأطوار (capricious, crackpot, cranky, curious, eccentric, nutty, odd, off beat, peculiar, queer, weirdo, whimsical), ‏سحري (magic, magical, matutinal, wizard, wonder), ‏عجيب (amazement, bizarre, fanciful, freakish, funny, marvellous, marvelous, odd, odd jobs, peculiar, phenomenal, portentous, prestigious, puzzling, rats, rum, staring, stupendous, tall, temperamental, wonder, wonderful, wondrous), ‏المتكهن (soothsayer). (various references)

Bulgarian 

съдбоносен (crucial, fatal, fateful, vital), съдба (chance, destiny, dispensation, doom, fatality, fate, fortune, hap, kismet, line, lot, luck, portion, star), странен (bizarre, comic, comical, fantastic, fantastical, freakish, funny, grotesque, novel, odd, outlandish, peculiar, quaint, queer, remarkable, rum, rummy, screwy, singular, strange, uncanny, unco, unheard of, whimsical), свръхестествен (eerie, hyperphysical, metaphysical, miraculous, occult, preternatural, spiritual, supernatural, supersensible, transcendental, uncanny, unearthly, unnatural), фатален (fatal, fateful, inevitable, irrevocable, lethal, portentous, vital), необикновен (devilish, different, distinct, exceptional, extraordinary, extreme, freak, freakish, novel, out, out of the ordinary, out of the way, phenomenal, portentous, quaint, remarkable, singular, special, unaccustomed, unaverage, uncommon, unconventional, unheard of, unusual), неземен (ethereal, supermundane, unearthly, unworldly), зла орис. (various references)

Chinese 

怪誕 (freak), 怪異 , 奇 (odd, strange, wonderful), 古怪 (Erratic, Erratical, Excentric, kooky, Quirky, Quizzical, Weirdness). (various references)

Czech

zvláštní (curious, extra, extraordinary, funny, individual, intriguing, odd, outlandish, particular, peculiar, quaint, queer, singular, special, strange, unique), tajuplný (eerie, eery, esoteric, otherworldly, uncanny), podivný (curious, eldritch, freak, peculiar, quaint, queer, rum, strange, utter), příšerný (appalling, atrocious, blinding, chronic, creepy, damnable, dreadful, excruciating, fearful, fiendish, ghastly, grisly, gruesome, horrendous, terrible, terrific, unholy, unspeakable, villainous), nadpřirozený (preternatural, supernatural, unearthly), bizarní (bizarre, fanciful, fantastic, freak, outlandish, queer). (various references)

Dutch

bizar (bizarre, odd). (various references)

Esperanto

frenezeta (crack-brained, daft, loopy, nuts), bizara (bizarre, odd). (various references)

Farsi 

مرموز (Cryptic, Exotic, Inscrutable, Mysterious, Recondite, Shady, Unaccountable, Unco), غریب (Curious, Eccentric, Extravagant, Immigrant, Lonely, Nostalgic, Romantic, Singular, Stranger, Uncanny, Unco, Unheard, Unmoral, Unusual, Whimsical, Wonder), خارق العاده (Singular, Unco), جادو (Glamor, Glamour, Incantation, Magic, Spell, Talisman, Wizard). (various references)

French

singulier, bizarre. (various references)

German

seltsam (bizarre, curious, curiously, extraordinary, fancy, foreign, interesting, odd, outlandish, outlandishness, peculiar, peculiarly, quaint, queer, queerly, strange, strangely, unaccountable, whimsical). (various references)

Greek 

μαγικόσ (magic, magical, sorcerous, witching, wizardly), εξωτικόσ (exotic), απόκοσμος (eerie, solitary, uncanny), αλλόκοτοσ (bizarre, eerie, grotesque, nondescript, odd, quaint, queer), αλλόκοτος (grotesque, queer, uncanny). (various references)

Hebrew 

משונה (anomalous, eccentric, freak, odd, quaint, queer, strange), לא טבעי (unnatural), תמהוני (eccentric, grotesque, outlandish, peculiar, strange). (various references)

Hungarian

furcsa (bizarre, bonkers, cockeyed, curious, dorky, droll, fanciful, fantasy, freakish, freaky, funny, grotesque, how odd that, kooky, louche, odd, outlandish, quaint, queer, quizzical, rum, rummy, strange, strange to say), hátborzongató (creepy, eerie, eery, eldritch, ghoulish, grim, grisly, gruesome, macabre, morbid, uncanny). (various references)

Italian

strano (astonishing, funny, nondescript, odd, outlandish, outlandishness, peculiar, quaint, queer, singular, strange, surprising, unusual, zany), sorte (aptness, chance, circumstance, destiny, doom, fate, fortune, hazard, lot, luck, prize, skill, ticket), soprannaturale (eerie, supernatural, unearthly), misterioso (abstruse, cryptic, eerie, enigmatic, mysterious, occult, secret, suspect, suspicious, unearthly), magico (charming, fairy, fascinating, magic, magical). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

面妖 (mysterious, strange), 薄気味悪い (eerie, uncanny), 怪奇 (bizarre, outrageous, strange, wonderful), 奇怪 (mysterious, outrageous, strange, wonderful), 変梃りん (strange), 変梃 (strange), 不気味　 (eerie, ghastly, ominous, uncanny), 不気味 (eerie, ghastly, ominous, uncanny), 妖気 (ghostly, unearthly). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

きっかい (mysterious, outrageous, strange, wonderful), きかい (chance, instrument, machine, mechanism, mysterious, opportunity, outrageous, shogi circles, strange, the goworld, wonderful), うすきみわるい (eerie, uncanny), ぶきみ (eerie, ghastly, ominous, uncanny), かいき (a type of thin thread, bizarre, buying mood, death anniversary, foundation of a temple, laying a foundation, outrageous, recovery, recurrence, recursion, revolution, session, society by-laws, strange, total eclipse, totality, wonderful), めんよう (mysterious, sheep, strange), ようき (cheerfulness, container, ghostly, instrument, season, tool, unearthly, vessel, weather), へんてこりん (strange), へんてこ (strange). (various references)

Korean 

괴괴망측한. (various references)

Manx

quaagh (alien, aloof, foreign, ghostly, odd, peculiar, psychic, psychical, quaint, strange, supernatural, uncanny), neuheiltagh (creepy, eerie, ethereal, uncanny). (various references)

Pig Latin

eirdway.(various references)

Portuguese

estranho (alien, awkward, curious, eerie, eery, extraneous, foreign, kinky, mysterious, novel, odd, outlandish, outsider, peculiar, quaint, queer, rum, strange, unaccountable, uncanny, unco, unfamiliar, unknown, way-out), esquisito (antic, bizarre, fastidious, freak, funny, odd, peculiar, queer, rum, strange). (various references)

Romanian

ursitã (destiny, fate), supranatural (miraculous, occult, preternatural, supernatural, unearthly), straniu (awesome, bizarre, curiously, eerie, eery, funny, novel, odd, out of the way, particular, peculiar, queer, rum, singular, strange, strangely, uncanny, uncouth, unearthly, whimsical), soartã (chance, destiny, dole, doom, fatality, fate, fortune, future, hap, kismet, line, lot, luck, portion, Rede), nepãmântean, nefiresc (affected, artificial, artificially, cardboard, factitious, unnatural), magic (magic, magical, magically, mystic, occult), fatal (deadly, deathly, fatal, fateful, feral, inevitably, pernicious, pestilent, pestilential, vital), ciudat (cranky, curious, droll, eccentric, extraordinary, extravagant, fanciful, fancy, freakish, funny, intriguing, kinky, odd, out of the way, outlandish, particular, peculiar, peculiarly, quaint, queer, rum, rummy, singular, strange, strangely, uncouth, unusual, whimsical). (various references)

Russian 

странный (bizarre, curious, exotic, freakish, freaky, funny, kinky, left-field, odd, oddish, off-the wall, peculiar, phoney, queer, rummy, strange, unaccountable, unco, vagarious). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

neobičan (novel, out of the way, outlandish, pixilated, strange, unacquainted, unco, uncommon), čudan (eccentric, flaky, funny, miraculous, odd, oddish, peculiar, pixilated, quaint, queer, strange, unco, way out, wondrous), čini (conjuration, ju-ju, magic). (various references)

Spanish

sobrenatural (occult, supernatural, unearthly), raro (curious, Dandy, definite, dignified, dingy, droll, exotic, extraordinary, extravagant, few and far between, frothy, funny, ichneumon, infrequent, lead, odd, oddball, oddish, odds-on, outlandishness, peculiar, queerish, quirky, rare, rum, scarce, singular, strange, uncanny, unusual, vintage), misterioso (dark, eerie, eery, eldritch, inscrutable, intriguing, lurid, mysterious, occult, odd, oracular, puzzling, queer, shrouded in mystery, spooky, subtil, subtile, subtle, uncanny), fanta/stico, extran~o, extraño (alien, bizarre, dago, droll, eerie, extraneous, foreign, kinky, odd, oddish, out of the way, peculiar, quaint, queer, quizzical, rum, rummy, singular, strange, stranger, uncommon). (various references)

Swedish

konstig (curious, funny, intricate, odd, queer, strange). (various references)

Turkish

tuhaf (antic, bizarre, comical, cranky, curious, droll, erratic, flaky, funnily, funny, funny peculiar, laughable, odd, offbeat, peculiar, peregrine, queer, quizzical, rum, rummy, screwball, screwy, singular, splay, strange, twee, unaccustomed, uncouth, unusual, whimsical), kader ile ilgili, esrarengiz (bottomless, eerie, eery, enigmatic, enigmatical, mysterious, uncanny, veiled in secrecy), anlaşılmaz (bottomless, clear as mud, complicated, deep, delphic, elusive, elusory, fathomless, impenetrable, inapprehensible, inarticulate, incomprehensible, inconceivable, inexplicable, inscrutable, intangible, obscure, occult, opaque, oracular, perplexed, puzzling, recondite, sphinxlike, unaccountable, uncanny, unintelligible, vague), acayip (antic, bizarre, bughouse, comical, comically, crotchety, curious, droll, exotic, fanciful, fantastic, fantastical, flaky, freak, freakish, grotesque, incongruous, kinky, kooky, novel, odd, out of the way, outlandish, peculiar, quaint, queer, quirky, quizzical, rum, rummy, screwball, singular, some, splendiferous, strange, uncanny, unco, unusual). (various references)

Turkmen 

syrly (mysterious), geс (strange, surprising). (various references)

Ukrainian

чудернацький (crotchety, odd, oddball, outlandish, quaint), чаклун (charmer, conjurer, conjuror, enchanter, hoodoo, magician, magus, necromancer, voodoo), фатум (destiny, fate), фатальний (basilisk, deathly, fatal, fateful, fey), таємничий (cabbalistic, cryptic, eldritch, esoteric, mysterious, mystical, occult, orphean, orphic, secretive, unearthly), незрозумілий (cabbalistic, cramp, impenetrable, obscure, opaque), передвістка (bodement), дивний (amazing, astonishing, astounding, bizarre, capricious, curious, freakish, odd, oddball, oddish, offbeat, original, out of the way, outlandish, quaint, queer, rum, rummy, strange, unaccountable, wonderful, wondrous). (various references)

Vietnamese 

số phận (destiny, kismet, lot), số mệnh (doom, fatality, fate, kismet, portion), khó hiểu (deep, delphian, delphic, enigmatic, enigmatical, incomprehensible, intricate, mysterious, oracular, perplexed, recondite, riddling, unintelligible), kỳ dị (arabesque, baroque, bizarre, curious, singular, strange, uncommon, whimsical). (various references)

Welsh

annaearol (unearthly). (various references)

cerritulus, fatum. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "weird": weirder, weirdest, weirdie, weirdies, weirdly, weirdness, weirdnesses, weirdo, weirdoes, weirdos, weirds, weirdy. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Weird" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: waird, wairt, wairz, weard, weerd, weidl, weierd, weild, weirdy, weire, weired, weirn, weirrd, weiry, weirz, weor, werd, werid, weried, wetir, weyr, wiard, Wier, wierd, wiered, Wiertz, wird, wirid, woir. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: wider, wired, wried.

-1 letter: dire, drew, ired, ride, weir, wide, wire.

-2 letters: dew, die, ire, red, rei, rid, wed.

-3 letters: de, ed, er, id, re, we.

+1 letter: dewier, rewind, waired, weirdo, weirds, weirdy, widder, wilder, winder.

+2 letters: bawdier, crowdie, dowdier, downier, dowries, misdrew, rawhide, redwing, rewiden, rewinds, rewired, rowdier, rowdies, swirled, twirled, wearied, wedgier, weedier, weirder, weirdie, weirdly, weirdos, wergild, whirled, whirred, widders, widener, widower, wielder, wilders, winders, windier, woodier, wordier, worried, wricked, wringed, writhed.

+3 letters: bawdries, bewilder, crowdies, dishware, doweries, dowering, drawlier, driveway, drowsier, fireweed, firewood, hardwire, ironweed, lowrider, overwide, overwind, rawhided, rawhides, redwings, reviewed, rewidens, rewinded, rewinder, richweed, rowdiest, shrewdie, sideward, swindler, tawdrier, tawdries, tweedier, twiddler, unwinder, weirdest, weirdies, weirdoes, weregild, wergilds, wherried, whirried, wickeder, wideners, widowers, wielders, wieldier, wildered, wildfire, wintered, wiredraw, wiredrew, withdrew, withered, woodsier, wordiest, worrited, wriggled, wrinkled.