weird

adj

1. Having an unusually strange character or behaviour.

   “There are lots of weird people in this place.”

2. Deviating from the normal; bizarre.

   “It was quite weird to bump into all my ex-girlfriends on the same day.”

   “It was weird for him to watch boys play with Barbie dolls.”

   “The best recent VC discs start from the relentlessness of gabber and digital hardcore, and yank it in a weirder direction.”

   “[…] filled with laphet. Fermented tea leaves kneaded with peanut oil, laphet is, hands-down, Myanmar's weirdest and most wonderful contribution to world cuisine.”

3. Relating to weird fiction ("a macabre subgenre of speculative fiction").

   “a weird story”

   “In his introduction to the 1955 volume, [Ray] Bradbury singles out these stories as oddities in his canon — he wrote this kind of tale before his twenty-sixth birthday (1946), and rarely since. They are pure fantasy of the "weird" sort and include some of Bradbury's most striking pieces: "The Scythe" (1943), "The Lake" (1944), "The Jar" (1944), "Skeleton" (1945), and "The Small Assassin" (1946)”

4. (archaic)Of or pertaining to the Fates.
5. (archaic)Connected with fate or destiny; able to influence fate.
6. (archaic)Of or pertaining to witches or witchcraft; supernatural; unearthly; suggestive of witches, witchcraft, or unearthliness; wild; uncanny.

   “Whiles I ſtood rapt in the wonder of it, came Miſſiues from the King, who all-hail'd me Thane of Cawdor, by which Title before, these weyward Sisters saluted me, and referr'd me to the comming on of time, with haile, King that ſhalt be.”

   “Those sweet, low tones, that seemed like a weird incantation.”

   “It may be in that dark hour at the burn-foot, before the spate caught her, she had been given grace to resist her adversary and fling herself upon God's mercy. And it would seem that it had been granted; for when he came to the Skerburnfoot, there in the corner sat the weird wife Alison, dead as a stone.”

   “Naphtha lamps shed a weird light over a busy scene, for the work was being continued night and day. A score or so of sturdy navvies were shovelling and picking along the track.”

7. (archaic)Having supernatural or preternatural power.

   “There was a weird light shining above the hill.”

8. (abbreviation, acronym, alt-of, not-comparable)Acronym of Western, educated, industrialized, rich and democratic.

   “WEIRD societies”

   “Our examination of the representativeness of WEIRD subjects is necessarily restricted to the rather limited database currently available.”

   “Perhaps one of the more striking distinctions between WEIRD societies and non-WEIRD societies (what Henrich, Heine, and Norenzayan call small-scale societies in their paper) is a distinction in visual perception processes.”

   “Again, it is likely that the majority of researchers in psychology and related fields are themselves members of WEIRD populations, living and working within WEIRD societies.”

noun

1. (archaic, countable, uncountable)Fate; destiny; luck.

   “Step by reluctant step, he had come to know his weird. The North must be saved from her.”

   “In the weird of death shall the hapless be whelmed, and from Doom’s dark prison Shall she steal forth never again.”

2. (countable, uncountable)A prediction.
3. (Scotland, countable, obsolete, uncountable)A spell or charm.

   “Thou shalt bear thy penance lone, / In the Valley of Saint John, / And this weird shall overtake thee;— / Sleep, until a knight shall wake thee, / For feat of arms as far renowned / As warrior of the Table Round.”

4. (countable, uncountable)That which comes to pass; a fact.
5. (archaic, countable, in-plural, uncountable)The Fates.
6. (informal, uncountable)Weirdness.

   “You know why it feels so good to be amongst real friends? They allow you to be your weird and love you for it. Imagine how it would feel to freely let your weird out and have the world love you for it.”

verb

1. (transitive)To destine; doom; change by witchcraft or sorcery.
2. (transitive)To warn solemnly; adjure.

adv

1. (nonstandard, not-comparable)In a strange manner.

   “I waltzed into that club just as straight as a goose and I kept tripping over things and people were looking at me weird.”

   “Man, you're talking weird!”