'Weird' definitions:
Definition of 'weird'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Suggesting the operation of supernatural influences; "an eldritch screech"; "the three weird sisters"; "stumps...had uncanny shapes as of monstrous creatures"- John Galsworthy; "an unearthly light"; "he could hear the unearthly scream of some curlew piercing the din"- Henry Kingsley [syn: eldritch, weird, uncanny, unearthly]
adjective
Strikingly odd or unusual; "some trick of the moonlight; some weird effect of shadow"- Bram Stoker
noun
Fate personified; any one of the three Weird Sisters [syn: Wyrd, Weird]
Definition of 'Weird'
From: GCIDE
- Weird \Weird\ (w[=e]rd), n. [OE. wirde, werde, AS. wyrd fate, fortune, one of the Fates, fr. weor[eth]an to be, to become; akin to OS. wurd fate, OHG. wurt, Icel. ur[eth]r. [root]143. See Worth to become.] [1913 Webster]
- 1. Fate; destiny; one of the Fates, or Norns; also, a prediction. [Obs. or Scot.] [1913 Webster]
- 2. A spell or charm. [Obs. or Scot.] --Sir W. Scott. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Weird'
From: GCIDE
- Weird \Weird\, a. [1913 Webster]
- 1. Of or pertaining to fate; concerned with destiny. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Of or pertaining to witchcraft; caused by, or suggesting, magical influence; supernatural; unearthly; wild; as, a weird appearance, look, sound, etc. [1913 Webster]
- Myself too had weird seizures. --Tennyson. [1913 Webster]
- Those sweet, low tones, that seemed like a weird incantation. --Longfellow. [1913 Webster]
- Weird sisters, the Fates. [Scot.] --G. Douglas. [1913 Webster]
- Note: Shakespeare uses the term for the three witches in Macbeth. [1913 Webster]
- The weird sisters, hand in hand, Posters of the sea and land. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Weird'
From: GCIDE
- Weird \Weird\, v. t. To foretell the fate of; to predict; to destine to. [Scot.] --Jamieson. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'weird'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- absurd,
- appointed lot,
- astral influences,
- astrology,
- awe-inspiring,
- awesome,
- awful,
- awing,
- beyond belief,
- bizarre,
- blue,
- book of fate,
- cadaverous,
- cantrip,
- cast,
- charm,
- circumstance,
- cockamamie,
- constellation,
- corpselike,
- crazy,
- creepy,
- cup,
- curious,
- curse,
- deadly,
- deathlike,
- deathly,
- deathly pale,
- destination,
- destiny,
- dies funestis,
- doom,
- dreadful,
- eccentric,
- eerie,
- eldritch,
- end,
- evil eye,
- exorcism,
- extravagant,
- fantastic,
- fatality,
- fate,
- fearful,
- foolish,
- forecast,
- foredoom,
- foretelling,
- fortune,
- freaked out,
- freaky,
- Friday,
- Friday the thirteenth,
- funny,
- future,
- ghastly,
- ghostlike,
- ghostly,
- glamour,
- grisly,
- grotesque,
- gruesome,
- haggard,
- haunting,
- hex,
- high-flown,
- hoodoo,
- horrific,
- ides of March,
- incantational,
- incantatory,
- incredible,
- inevitability,
- inscrutable,
- jinx,
- kismet,
- kooky,
- laughable,
- livid,
- lot,
- ludicrous,
- lurid,
- macabre,
- magian,
- magic,
- magic spell,
- malocchio,
- moira,
- monstrous,
- mortuary,
- mysterious,
- necromantic,
- nonsensical,
- numinous,
- odd,
- oddball,
- off,
- off the wall,
- out,
- outlandish,
- outrageous,
- outre,
- pale,
- passing strange,
- peculiar,
- planets,
- poppycockish,
- portion,
- preposterous,
- preternatural,
- prevision,
- prognosis,
- prognostication,
- prophecy,
- quaint,
- queer,
- ridiculous,
- shaman,
- shamanic,
- shamanist,
- shamanistic,
- singular,
- sorcerous,
- spell,
- spookish,
- spooky,
- stars,
- strange,
- supernal,
- supernatural,
- talismanic,
- thaumaturgic,
- uncanny,
- unco,
- uncolike,
- uncouth,
- unearthly,
- unlucky day,
- unnatural,
- voodoo,
- voodooistic,
- wan,
- wanga,
- whammy,
- wheel of fortune,
- wild,
- will of Heaven,
- witch,
- witchlike,
- witchy,
- wizardlike,
- wizardly,
- wondrous strange