weird

Etymology
From, , , , , from , from , from , from. Cognate with 🇨🇬. Related to 🇨🇬. . More at worth.

Weird was obsolete by the 16th century in English. It survived in, whence Shakespeare borrowed it in naming the Weird Sisters (originally Weyward Sisters, the ), reintroducing it to English. The senses “abnormal”, “strange” etc. arose via reinterpretation of Weird Sisters and date from after this reintroduction.

Adjective

 * 1) Having an unusually strange character or behaviour.
 * 2) Deviating from the normal; bizarre.
 * 3) Relating to weird fiction ("a macabre subgenre of speculative fiction").
 * 4)  Of or pertaining to the Fates.
 * 5)  Connected with fate or destiny; able to influence fate.
 * 6)  Of or pertaining to witches or witchcraft; supernatural; unearthly; suggestive of witches, witchcraft, or unearthliness; wild; uncanny.
 * 7)  Having supernatural or preternatural power.
 * 1)  Of or pertaining to the Fates.
 * 2)  Connected with fate or destiny; able to influence fate.
 * 3)  Of or pertaining to witches or witchcraft; supernatural; unearthly; suggestive of witches, witchcraft, or unearthliness; wild; uncanny.
 * 4)  Having supernatural or preternatural power.
 * 1)  Connected with fate or destiny; able to influence fate.
 * 2)  Of or pertaining to witches or witchcraft; supernatural; unearthly; suggestive of witches, witchcraft, or unearthliness; wild; uncanny.
 * 3)  Having supernatural or preternatural power.
 * 1)  Having supernatural or preternatural power.
 * 1)  Having supernatural or preternatural power.
 * 1)  Having supernatural or preternatural power.
 * 1)  Having supernatural or preternatural power.
 * 1)  Having supernatural or preternatural power.

Translations

 * Arabic: عَجِيب,
 * Egyptian Arabic: عجيب
 * Hijazi Arabic: غَريب
 * Bashkir: сәйер
 * Bulgarian:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech: ,
 * Danish: mærkelig, besynderlig, ejendommelig
 * Dutch:, , ,
 * Esperanto: stranga
 * Faroese: løgin, løgið
 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * Galician: ,
 * Georgian: უცნაური
 * German:, , ,
 * Greek:
 * Hawaiian: āiwaiwa
 * Hebrew:
 * Hunsrik: komisch
 * Icelandic:
 * Indonesian:
 * Ingrian: muudra, vastumain
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese:
 * Khmer: ចំឡែក
 * Ladino: estranyo, toaf
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: ,
 * Old English: seldcūþ
 * Persian:
 * Plautdietsch: schnoopichm sondaboa
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: ,
 * Russian:, ,
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Turkish:, , , , tüyler ürpertici,
 * Ukrainian: ди́вний, чудерна́цький, дива́цький
 * Vietnamese:, kì quái, kì cục
 * Yiddish: משונהדיק, מאָדנע


 * Arabic:
 * Egyptian Arabic: عجيب
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan: ,
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech: ,
 * Dutch:, , , , ,
 * Faroese: løgin
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * Galician: ,
 * Georgian: უცნაური
 * German:, , , ,
 * Hawaiian: āiwaiwa
 * Icelandic:
 * Ingrian: muudra, vastumain
 * Italian:, ,
 * Japanese:
 * Khmer: ជំលើយ
 * Ladino: estranyo, toaf
 * Old English: seldcūþ
 * Persian:
 * Plautdietsch: schnoopich, sondaboa
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Russian:, ,
 * Slovak: divný
 * Spanish:
 * Turkish:, ,
 * Ukrainian: ди́вний, чудерна́цький, химе́рний
 * Vietnamese:, , kì dị
 * Yiddish: משונהדיק, מאָדנע


 * Bulgarian: свръхествствен
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * German:, ,
 * Hawaiian: ano, ʻeʻehia
 * Italian:, , paranormale, , fuori dall'ordinario,
 * Russian: ,
 * Spanish:
 * Turkish:, ,
 * Ukrainian: надприро́дний

Noun

 * 1)  Fate; destiny; luck.
 * 2) A prediction.
 * 3)  A spell or charm.
 * 4) That which comes to pass; a fact.
 * 5)  The Fates.
 * 6)  Weirdness.
 * 1)  A spell or charm.
 * 2) That which comes to pass; a fact.
 * 3)  The Fates.
 * 4)  Weirdness.
 * 1)  The Fates.
 * 2)  Weirdness.
 * 1)  Weirdness.

Verb

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

Adverb

 * 1)  In a strange manner.

Usage notes
As an adverb, weird is only used to modify verbs, and is always positioned after the verb it modifies. Unlike, it cannot modify an adjective (as in "She was weirdly generous.") or an entire sentence (as in "Weirdly, no-one spoke up.").

Etymology
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Adjective

 * , bizarre

Etymology
,, , from , from.

Noun

 * 1) fate, fortune, destiny, one's own particular fate or appointed lot
 * 2) event destined to happen, a god's decree, omen, prophecy, prediction. Old Scots Proverb: "Before wierd, there's word" i.e., before a divine event there's a warning.
 * 3) wizard, warlock, one having deep or supernatural skill or knowledge

Adjective

 * 1) troublesome, mischievous, harmful

Verb

 * 1) to ordain by fate, destine, assign a specific fate or fortune to, allot
 * 2) to imprecate, invoke
 * 3) to prophesy, prognosticate the fate of, warn ominously