weird

Signification (Anglais)

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. Of or pertaining to the Fates.
5. Connected with fate or destiny; able to influence fate.
6. Of or pertaining to witches or witchcraft; supernatural; unearthly; suggestive of witches, witchcraft, or unearthliness; wild; uncanny.
7. Having supernatural or preternatural power.

Noun

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

Verb

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

Adv

In a strange manner.

Concepts

bizarre

étrange

singulier

drôle

😄

curieux

singulière

surnaturel

chelou

mystérieux

sinistre

particulier

tordu

angoissant

curieuse

saugrenu

tordue

zarbi

étrangesingulier

balivernes

particulière

baroque

bouffe

déroutant

extraordinaire

fantasque

fantastique

inquiétant

marrant

😄

menaçant

Synonymes

strange

odd

bizarre

queer

peculiar

uncanny

curious

eerie

eccentric

unearthly

supernatural

unusual

eldritch

funny

😄

grotesque

spooky

mysterious

wacky

fantastic

abnormal

ominous

wonderful

disgusting

crazy

kinky

freaky

outrageous

ghostly

kooky

be strange

monstrous

event

scary

unnatural

sickening

uncommon

singular

whacky

quaint

fate

miracle

monster

muddled

mumbo jumbo

nondescript

nonsensical

oddish

omen

outlandish

particular

phantom

pleasure

preternatural

quirky

reserved

separate

snapping

soothsayer

sportive

stories

stranger

suspicious

tangled

unaccountable

unco

unordinary

wanton

weirdness

whimsical

witching

wonder

zany

feel sick

out of sorts

sorcerous

stange

very strange

losing common sense

flakey

unheimlich

weirdsome

unknown

hinky

absurd

addlepated

amusing

apart

characteristic

cheering

comical

confused

😕

desolate

different

distant

disturbing

elfish

elvish

enjoyable

entertaining

exceptional

exotic

extraordinary

fishy

flaky

formidable

forsaken

freakish

fruity

ghastly

ghost

👻

gibberish

gloomy

goblin

happening

hard of hearing

hare-brained

hilarious

interesting

kookie

lascivious

magic

🪄

magical

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/ˈwɪə(ɹ)d/

Étymologie (Anglais)

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.