weird
adjective /wɪəd/
/wɪrd/
(comparative weirder, superlative weirdest)
Idioms - very strange or unusual and difficult to explain synonym strange
- I had a really weird dream last night.
- She's a really weird girl.
- He's got some weird ideas.
- It's really weird seeing yourself on television.
- the weird and wonderful creatures that live beneath the sea
Extra Examples- I started to feel really weird.
- It all sounds a bit weird to me.
- Some of their clothes were really weird and wonderful.
- It's a weird and wonderful island full of weird and wonderful things to do.
- She's a very weird girl.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverbs- be
- feel
- seem
- …
- extremely
- fairly
- very
- …
- weird and wonderful
- strange in a mysterious and frightening way synonym eerie
- She began to make weird inhuman sounds.
Word OriginOld English wyrd ‘destiny’, of Germanic origin. The adjective (late Middle English) originally meant ‘having the power to control destiny’, and was used especially in the Weird Sisters, originally referring to the Fates, later the witches in Shakespeare's Macbeth; the latter use gave rise to the sense ‘unearthly’ (early 19th cent.).
Idioms
funny weird/strange (US English)
(British English funny peculiar)
- (informal) used to show that ‘funny’ is being used with the meaning of ‘strange’