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.]
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1. Fate; destiny; one of the Fates, or Norns; also, a
prediction. [Obs. or Scot.]
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2. A spell or charm. [Obs. or Scot.] --Sir W. Scott.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Weird \Weird\, a.
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1. Of or pertaining to fate; concerned with destiny.
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2. Of or pertaining to witchcraft; caused by, or suggesting,
magical influence; supernatural; unearthly; wild; as, a
weird appearance, look, sound, etc.
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Myself too had weird seizures. --Tennyson.
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Those sweet, low tones, that seemed like a weird
incantation. --Longfellow.
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Weird sisters, the Fates. [Scot.] --G. Douglas.
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Note: Shakespeare uses the term for the three witches in
Macbeth.
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The weird sisters, hand in hand,
Posters of the sea and land. --Shak.
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Weird \Weird\, v. t.
To foretell the fate of; to predict; to destine to. [Scot.]
--Jamieson.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
weird
adj 1: 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, uncanny,
unearthly]
2: strikingly odd or unusual; "some trick of the moonlight;
some weird effect of shadow"- Bram Stoker
n : Fate personified; one of the three Weird Sisters [syn: Wyrd]
WordNet (r) 2.0
154 Moby Thesaurus words for "weird":
Friday, Friday the thirteenth, 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, 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
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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