weird

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[edit] English

[edit] Etymology

From Old English wyrd (fate, destiny), through weohrtan (to become).

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weird (comparative weirder, superlative weirdest)

  1. Having supernatural or preternatural power.
  2. Having an unusually strange character or behaviour.
  3. Deviating from the normal; bizarre.
  4. (archaic) Of or pertaining to the Fates.

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Singular
weird

Plural
weirds

weird (plural weirds)

  1. (archaic, except in Scots) fate or destiny
    • 1912, Euripides, Medea, trans. Arthur S. Way (Heinemenn 1946, p. 361)
      In the weird of death shall the hapless be whelmed, and from Doom’s dark prison / Shall she steal forth never again.
  2. (archaic, in plural) The Fates.

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Infinitive
to weird

Third person singular
weirds

Simple past
weirded

Past participle
weirded

Present participle
weirding

to weird (third-person singular simple present weirds, present participle weirding, simple past and past participle weirded)

  1. To make someone feel strange.
    Hey man, you’re weirding me out.

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[edit] Scots

[edit] Etymology

From Old English wyrd (fate, destiny), through weohrtan (to become).

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[edit] Noun

weird (plural weirds)

Singular
weird

Plural
weirds

  1. fate, destiny.

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