| 单词 | weird | 
| 释义 | weird   (wîrd) adj.  weird·er, weird·est  1.  Strikingly odd or unusual, especially in an unsettling way; strange: He lives in a weird old house on a dark street. Your neighbor is said to be a little weird. I felt a little weird after drinking that tea. 2.  Suggestive of the supernatural: weird stories about ghosts. 3. Archaic  Of or relating to fate or the Fates. n.  Archaic 1.  Fate; destiny. 2.  One's assigned lot or fortune, especially when evil. tr. & intr.v.  weird·ed, weird·ing, weirds  Slang  To experience or cause to experience an odd, unusual, and sometimes uneasy sensation. Often used with out. [Middle English werd, wird, fate (often in the pl. wirdes, the Fates), from Old English wyrd; see  wer-2 in the Appendix of Indo-European roots.] weirdly adv. weirdness n. Synonyms:  weird, eerie, uncanny, unearthly These adjectives refer to what is of a mysteriously strange, usually frightening nature. Weird may suggest the operation of supernatural influences, or merely the odd or unusual: "Nameless voices—weird sounds that awake in a Southern forest at twilight's approach,—were crying a sinister welcome to the settling gloom" (Kate Chopin). "The platypus ... seemed so weird when first discovered that a specimen sent to a museum was thought to be a hoax: bits of mammal and bits of bird stitched together" (Richard Dawkins). Something eerie inspires fear or uneasiness and implies a sinister influence: "His white countenance was rendered eerie by the redness of the sagging lids below his eyes" (John Updike). Uncanny refers to what is impossible to explain or accept: "My mother had an uncanny ability to see right through to my motives. At the time I wondered if she had ESP" (Porter Shreve). Something unearthly seems so strange and unnatural as to come from or belong to another world: "The joy of having escaped death made the unearthly ruins of Hamburg seem more like a smoldering paradise than the purgatory other people thought our once lovely city had become" (Marione Ingram). | 
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