weird
/ˈwiɚd/ adjective B1- Having an unusually strange character or behaviour. · There are lots of weird people in this place.
- 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.
- Relating to weird fiction ("a macabre subgenre of speculative fiction"). · a weird story
- Belonging, pertaining, or related to fate, destiny, or to the Fates; able to influence fate.
- Related to witches or witchcraft; supernatural; unearthly; suggestive of witches, witchcraft or unearthliness; uncanny; unearthly.
- Having super- or preternatural power.
Comparative weirder · Superlative weirdest
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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We were fairly accustomed to receive weird telegrams at Baker Street, but I have a particular recollection of one which reached us on a gloomy February morning, some seven or eight years ago, and gave Mr.
“It’s the weirdest, strangest thing that ever I heard in my life.”
The melancholy of the moor, the death of the unfortunate pony, the weird sound which had been associated with the grim legend of the Baskervilles, all these things tinged my thoughts with sadness.
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