weird

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Etymology 1.2 Pronunciation 1.3 Adjective 1.3.1 Synonyms 1.3.2 Derived terms 1.3.3 Translations 1.4 Noun 1.4.1 Derived terms 1.5 Verb 1.5.1 Translations 1.6 Anagrams 2 Scots 2.1 Etymology 2.2 Pronunciation 2.3 Noun 2.3.1 Derived terms

[edit] English

[edit] Etymology

From Old English wyrd (“‘fate, destiny’”), through weohrtan (“‘to become’”).

[edit] Pronunciation

• (RP) IPA: /wɪəd/, SAMPA: /wI@d/
• (US) IPA: /wiɚd/, /wɪɚd/, SAMPA: /wi@rd/
•  Audio (US)^{help, file}
• Rhymes: -ɪə(r)d

[edit] Adjective

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.

[edit] Synonyms

• eerie
• uncanny
• See also Wikisaurus:strange

[edit] Derived terms

• weirdo
• weirdly
• weirdness

[edit] Translations

[edit] Noun

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.

[edit] Derived terms

• dree one’s weird

[edit] Verb

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.

[edit] Translations

[edit] Anagrams

• wider
• wired

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[edit] Scots

[edit] Etymology

From Old English wyrd (“‘fate, destiny’”), through weohrtan (“‘to become’”).

[edit] Pronunciation

• IPA: /wird/

[edit] Noun

weird (plural weirds)

1. fate, destiny.

[edit] Derived terms

• dree one’s weird