weird

About 3.64 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. adjective Having an unusually strange character or behaviour.

   There are lots of weird people in this place.

2. adjective Deviating from the normal; bizarre.

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

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

   a weird story

4. adjective Belonging, pertaining, or related to fate, destiny, or to the Fates; able to influence fate.
5. adjective Belonging, pertaining, or related to fate, destiny, or to the Fates; able to influence fate.
6. adjective Related to witches or witchcraft; supernatural; unearthly; suggestive of witches, witchcraft or unearthliness; uncanny; unearthly.
7. adjective Having super- or preternatural power.
8. noun Fate; destiny; luck.

Similar words

strange uncanny eldritch unusual unearthly supernatural wyrd bizarro oddly outlandish

Often followed by

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Word family

weirder weirdest weirdness weirdnesses weirds