• (British) IPA: /ˈwɪəd/, /ˈwiːəd/
• (America) IPA: /ˈwiɚd/, /ˈwɪɚd/

weird (comparative weirder, superlative weirdest)

1. Having an unusually strange character or behaviour.

   There are lots of weird people in this place.

2. Deviating from the normal; bizarre.

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

3. (archaic) Of or pertaining to the Fates.

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4. (archaic) Connected with fate or destiny; able to influence fate.
5. (archaic) Of or pertaining to witches or witchcraft; supernatural; unearthly; suggestive of witches, witchcraft, or unearthliness; wild; uncanny.

   • Those sweet, low tones, that seemed like a weird incantation.

   • c. 1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358 ↗, [Act 1, scene 5]:

     Whiles I stood rapt in the wonder of it, came missives from the king, who all-hailed me, 'Thane of Cawdor'; by which title, before, these weird sisters saluted me, and referred me to the coming on of time, with 'Hail, king that shalt be!'

   • Naphtha lamps shed a weird light over a busy scene, for the work was being continued night and day. A score or so of sturdy navvies were shovelling and picking along the track.

6. (archaic) Having supernatural or preternatural power.

   There was a weird light shining above the hill.

• (having supernatural or preternatural power) eerie, spooky, uncanny
• (unusually strange in character or behaviour) odd, oddball, peculiar, strange, whacko; see also Thesaurus:insane
• (deviating from the normal) bizarre, fremd, odd, out of the ordinary, strange; see also Thesaurus:strange
• (of or pertaining to the Fates) fateful

• German: geheimnisvoll, unheimlich, übernatürlich
• Italian: anormale, surreale, paranormale, innaturale, fuori dall'ordinario
• Russian: потусторо́нний

• French: bizarre, étrange
• German: seltsam, komisch, eigenartig, merkwürdig
• Italian: strano, bizzarro
• Portuguese: estranho
• Russian: стра́нный
• Spanish: raro

• French: bizarre
• German: eigenartig, merkwürdig, sonderbar, seltsam, bizarr
• Italian: bizzarro, bislacco, strambo
• Portuguese: estranho, bizarro
• Russian: стра́нный
• Spanish: raro

weird (plural weirds)

1. (archaic) Fate; destiny; luck.
2. A prediction.
3. (obsolete, Scotland) A spell or charm.
4. That which comes to pass; a fact.
5. (archaic, in the plural) The Fates (personified).

• (fate; destiny) kismet, lot, orlay, wyrd
• (luck) fortune, luck; see also Thesaurus:luck
• (prediction) foretale, foretelling, prognostication; see also Thesaurus:prediction
• (spell or charm) enchantment, incantation, cantrip
• (fact)
• (The Fates) The Norns

weird (weirds, present participle weirding; past and past participle weirded)

1. (transitive) To destine; doom; change by witchcraft or sorcery.
2. (transitive) To warn solemnly; adjure.

weird (not comparable)

1. (acronym) Abbreviation of Western#English|Western, educated#English|educated, industrialized#English|industrialized, rich#English|rich and democratic#English|democratic.