weird

  • 31weird — [[t]wɪ͟ə(r)d[/t]] weirder, weirdest ADJ GRADED: oft it v link ADJ to inf/ ing If you describe something or someone as weird, you mean that they are strange. [INFORMAL] That first day was weird... He s different. He s weird... Drugs can make you… …

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  • 32Weird — Cette page d’homonymie répertorie les différents sujets et articles partageant un même nom. Weird Tales est un magazine américain de type pulp lancé en mars 1923. Weird Al Yankovic (1959 ) est chanteur, musicien, acteur, parodiste, compositeur,… …

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  • 33weird — adjective 1 informal unusual and different from anything you have seen or heard before; bizarre: Mike s got a really weird sense of humour. | weird and wonderful: Tom s full of weird and wonderful ideas. 2 very strange, mysterious, or frightening …

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  • 34weird */ — UK [wɪə(r)d] / US [wɪrd] adjective Word forms weird : adjective weird comparative weirder superlative weirdest strange and unusual, sometimes in a way that upsets you I had a weird dream last night. The weird thing is, nobody else noticed.… …

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  • 35weird — /wɪəd / (say weard) adjective 1. involving or suggesting the supernatural; unearthly or uncanny: a weird scene; a weird light; a weird sound. 2. Colloquial startlingly or extraordinarily singular, odd, or queer: a weird get up. 3. concerned with… …

  • 36weird — I. noun Etymology: Middle English wird, werd, from Old English wyrd; akin to Old Norse urthr fate, Old English weorthan to become more at worth Date: before 12th century 1. fate, destiny; especially ill fortune 2. soothsayer II …

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  • 37weird — [wɪəd] adjective 1》 suggesting something supernatural; uncanny.     ↘informal very strange; bizarre. 2》 archaic connected with fate. noun archaic, chiefly Scottish a person s destiny. verb (weird someone out) N. Amer. informal induce a sense of… …

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  • 38weird — adjective 1) weird apparitions Syn: uncanny, eerie, unnatural, supernatural, unearthly, otherworldly, ghostly, mysterious, strange, abnormal, unusual; eldritch; informal creepy, spooky, freaky Ant …

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  • 39weird — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. uncanny, eldritch, eerie, spooky (inf.); ghostly, spectral, unearthly; supernatural. See unconformity, demon. II (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. mysterious, uncanny, ominous, eerie, ghastly, unearthly; see …

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  • 40weird — [OE] Originally, weird was a noun, meaning ‘fate, destiny’. Etymologically it denoted ‘that which comes about’: for it was derived from the same base which produced the now obsolete English verb worth ‘come to be, become’ (a relative of German… …

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