| 单词 | weird |
| 释义 | weird —weirdly, adv. —weirdness, n. /weard/, adj., weirder, weirdest, n. adj. 1. involving or suggesting the supernatural; unearthly or uncanny: a weird sound; weird lights. 2. fantastic; bizarre: a weird getup. 3. Archaic. concerned with or controlling fate or destiny. n. Chiefly Scot. 4. fate; destiny. 5. fate (def. 6). [bef. 900; (n.) ME (northern form of wird), OE wyrd; akin to WORTH2; (adj.) ME, orig. attributive n. in phrase werde sisters the Fates (popularized as appellation of the witches in Macbeth)] Syn. 1. unnatural, preternatural. WEIRD, EERIE, UNEARTHLY, UNCANNY refer to that which is mysterious and apparently outside natural law. WEIRD refers to that which is suggestive of the fateful intervention of supernatural influences in human affairs: the weird adventures of a group lost in the jungle. EERIE refers to that which, by suggesting the ghostly, makes one's flesh creep: an eerie moaning from a deserted house. UNEARTHLY refers to that which seems by its nature to belong to another world: an unearthly light that preceded the storm. UNCANNY refers to that which is mysterious because of its apparent defiance of the laws established by experience: an uncanny ability to recall numbers. Ant. 1. natural. |
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