weird

Betekenis (Engels)

Adj

1. Having an unusually strange character or behaviour.
2. Deviating from the normal; bizarre.
3. Relating to weird fiction ("a macabre subgenre of speculative fiction").
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.
7. (archaic) Having supernatural or preternatural power.

Noun

1. (archaic) Fate; destiny; luck.
2. A prediction.
3. (Scotland, obsolete) A spell or charm.
4. That which comes to pass; a fact.
5. (archaic, in-plural) The Fates.
6. (informal) Weirdness.

Verb

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

Adv

In a strange manner.

Sinonieme

strange

odd

bizarre

queer

peculiar

uncanny

eerie

curious

eccentric

unearthly

supernatural

unusual

grotesque

eldritch

funny

😄

mysterious

spooky

fantastic

crazy

wonderful

freaky

ominous

abnormal

kinky

disgusting

wacky

fate

ghostly

event

be strange

whacky

uncommon

unnatural

singular

scary

sickening

outrageous

quaint

monstrous

kooky

different

extraordinary

exotic

desolate

exceptional

hilarious

entertaining

hare-brained

hard of hearing

enjoyable

Vertalings

bizarre

raro

seltsam

extraño

strano

sonderbar

étrange

vreemd

merkwürdig

eigenartig

estranho

acayip

bizzarro

esquisito

bizarr

Uitgespreek as (IPA)

/ˈwɪə(ɹ)d/

Etimologie (Engels)

Verwante met Yslands: urður

Verwante met Old English: weorþan

In summary

From Middle English werde, wierde, wirde, wyrede, wurde, from Old English wyrd (“fate”), from Proto-West Germanic *wurdi, from Proto-Germanic *wurdiz, from Proto-Indo-European *wert- (“to turn, wind”). Cognate with Icelandic urður (“fate”). Related to Old English weorþan (“to become”). Doublet of wyrd. More at worth.
Obsolete by the 16th century in English, but reintroduced from Middle Scots weird, whence Shakespeare borrowed it in naming the Weird Sisters (originally Weyward Sisters, the Three Witches), reintroducing it to English. The senses “abnormal”, “strange” etc. arose via reinterpretation of Weird Sisters and date from after this reintroduction.