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"sense": "having an unusually strange character or behaviour",
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"sense": "having an unusually strange character or behaviour",
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"sense": "having an unusually strange character or behaviour",
"word": "奇怪"
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"word": "zvláštní"
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"sense": "having an unusually strange character or behaviour",
"word": "mærkelig"
},
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"sense": "having an unusually strange character or behaviour",
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},
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"sense": "having an unusually strange character or behaviour",
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"word": "stranga"
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"sense": "having an unusually strange character or behaviour",
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"sense": "having an unusually strange character or behaviour",
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"sense": "having an unusually strange character or behaviour",
"word": "estraño"
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"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"roman": "ucnauri",
"sense": "having an unusually strange character or behaviour",
"word": "უცნაური"
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"sense": "having an unusually strange character or behaviour",
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"sense": "having an unusually strange character or behaviour",
"word": "περίεργος"
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"sense": "having an unusually strange character or behaviour",
"word": "āiwaiwa"
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{
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"code": "he",
"lang": "Hebrew",
"roman": "muzár",
"sense": "having an unusually strange character or behaviour",
"word": "מוזר"
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"sense": "having an unusually strange character or behaviour",
"word": "skrýtinn"
},
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"sense": "having an unusually strange character or behaviour",
"word": "aneh"
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"word": "muudra"
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"word": "vastumain"
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"sense": "having an unusually strange character or behaviour",
"word": "strano"
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"sense": "having an unusually strange character or behaviour",
"word": "bizzarro"
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"alt": "へん",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
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"sense": "having an unusually strange character or behaviour",
"word": "変"
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"sense": "having an unusually strange character or behaviour",
"word": "変わった"
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{
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"code": "ja",
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"sense": "having an unusually strange character or behaviour",
"word": "おかしい"
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"code": "km",
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"roman": "cɑmlaek",
"sense": "having an unusually strange character or behaviour",
"word": "ចំឡែក"
},
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"sense": "having an unusually strange character or behaviour",
"word": "estranyo"
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"sense": "having an unusually strange character or behaviour",
"word": "toaf"
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"sense": "having an unusually strange character or behaviour",
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"sense": "having an unusually strange character or behaviour",
"word": "underlig"
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"word": "merkelig"
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{
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"sense": "having an unusually strange character or behaviour",
"word": "seldcūþ"
},
{
"_dis1": "76 4 6 5 1 3 6",
"code": "fa",
"lang": "Persian",
"roman": "'ajib",
"sense": "having an unusually strange character or behaviour",
"word": "عجیب"
},
{
"_dis1": "76 4 6 5 1 3 6",
"code": "pdt",
"lang": "Plautdietsch",
"sense": "having an unusually strange character or behaviour",
"word": "schnoopichm sondaboa"
},
{
"_dis1": "76 4 6 5 1 3 6",
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "having an unusually strange character or behaviour",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "dziwny"
},
{
"_dis1": "76 4 6 5 1 3 6",
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "having an unusually strange character or behaviour",
"word": "estranho"
},
{
"_dis1": "76 4 6 5 1 3 6",
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "having an unusually strange character or behaviour",
"word": "straniu"
},
{
"_dis1": "76 4 6 5 1 3 6",
"code": "ro",
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"sense": "having an unusually strange character or behaviour",
"word": "ciudat"
},
{
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"code": "ru",
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"sense": "having an unusually strange character or behaviour",
"word": "стра́нный"
},
{
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"roman": "pričúdlivyj",
"sense": "having an unusually strange character or behaviour",
"word": "причу́дливый"
},
{
"_dis1": "76 4 6 5 1 3 6",
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"sense": "having an unusually strange character or behaviour",
"word": "чудно́й"
},
{
"_dis1": "76 4 6 5 1 3 6",
"code": "es",
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"sense": "having an unusually strange character or behaviour",
"word": "raro"
},
{
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"code": "es",
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"sense": "having an unusually strange character or behaviour",
"word": "cuático"
},
{
"_dis1": "76 4 6 5 1 3 6",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "having an unusually strange character or behaviour",
"word": "anormal"
},
{
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"code": "es",
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"sense": "having an unusually strange character or behaviour",
"word": "bizarro"
},
{
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"sense": "having an unusually strange character or behaviour",
"word": "konstig"
},
{
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"sense": "having an unusually strange character or behaviour",
"word": "underlig"
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"sense": "having an unusually strange character or behaviour",
"word": "märklig"
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{
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"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "having an unusually strange character or behaviour",
"word": "märkvärdig"
},
{
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"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "having an unusually strange character or behaviour",
"word": "besynnerlig"
},
{
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"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "having an unusually strange character or behaviour",
"word": "acayip"
},
{
"_dis1": "76 4 6 5 1 3 6",
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "having an unusually strange character or behaviour",
"word": "garip"
},
{
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"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "having an unusually strange character or behaviour",
"word": "tuhaf"
},
{
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"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "having an unusually strange character or behaviour",
"word": "yadırgatıcı"
},
{
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"code": "tr",
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"sense": "having an unusually strange character or behaviour",
"word": "tüyler ürpertici"
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{
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"code": "uk",
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"roman": "dývnyj",
"sense": "having an unusually strange character or behaviour",
"word": "ди́вний"
},
{
"_dis1": "76 4 6 5 1 3 6",
"code": "uk",
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"roman": "čudernácʹkyj",
"sense": "having an unusually strange character or behaviour",
"word": "чудерна́цький"
},
{
"_dis1": "76 4 6 5 1 3 6",
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "dyvácʹkyj",
"sense": "having an unusually strange character or behaviour",
"word": "дива́цький"
},
{
"_dis1": "76 4 6 5 1 3 6",
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "having an unusually strange character or behaviour",
"word": "kì quặc"
},
{
"_dis1": "76 4 6 5 1 3 6",
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "having an unusually strange character or behaviour",
"word": "kì quái"
},
{
"_dis1": "76 4 6 5 1 3 6",
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "having an unusually strange character or behaviour",
"word": "kì cục"
},
{
"_dis1": "76 4 6 5 1 3 6",
"code": "yi",
"lang": "Yiddish",
"roman": "meshunedik",
"sense": "having an unusually strange character or behaviour",
"word": "משונהדיק"
},
{
"_dis1": "76 4 6 5 1 3 6",
"code": "yi",
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"roman": "modne",
"sense": "having an unusually strange character or behaviour",
"word": "מאָדנע"
}
]
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{
"text": "It was quite weird to bump into all my ex-girlfriends on the same day.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"ref": "1999, SPIN, volume 15, number 3, page 145:",
"text": "The best recent VC discs start from the relentlessness of gabber and digital hardcore, and yank it in a weirder direction.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2002 August, Gourmet, volume 62, numbers 7-12, page 71:",
"text": "[…] filled with laphet. Fermented tea leaves kneaded with peanut oil, laphet is, hands-down, Myanmar's weirdest and most wonderful contribution to world cuisine.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Deviating from the normal; bizarre."
],
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"links": [
[
"bizarre",
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]
],
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"word": "bizarre"
},
{
"word": "odd"
},
{
"word": "out of the ordinary"
},
{
"word": "strange"
},
{
"tags": [
"archaic",
"dialectal"
],
"word": "fremd"
},
{
"word": "strange"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"_dis1": "2 86 5 4 1 2 1",
"code": "arz",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "ʕagīb",
"sense": "deviating from the normal; bizarre",
"tags": [
"Egyptian-Arabic"
],
"word": "عجيب"
},
{
"_dis1": "2 86 5 4 1 2 1",
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "pričudliv",
"sense": "deviating from the normal; bizarre",
"word": "причудлив"
},
{
"_dis1": "2 86 5 4 1 2 1",
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "deviating from the normal; bizarre",
"word": "rar"
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{
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"word": "tuhaf"
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"sense": "deviating from the normal; bizarre",
"word": "lạ"
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"_dis1": "2 86 5 4 1 2 1",
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{
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"ref": "1978, Jeffrey Helterman, Richard Layman, editors, Dictionary of Literary Biography, Volume 2: American Novelists Since World War II, Detroit, M.A.: Gale Research Company, →ISBN, page 62, column 1:",
"text": "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)",
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"ref": "c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene v], page 134, column 1:",
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"sense": "having supernatural or preternatural power",
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{
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{
"word": "uncanny"
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}
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"tags": [
"UK"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈwiɚd/",
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]
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"US"
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],
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{
"word": "weïrd"
},
{
"tags": [
"obsolete"
],
"word": "wierd"
},
{
"word": "weyard"
},
{
"english": "Shakespeare",
"tags": [
"obsolete"
],
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{
"code": "ar",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "ʕajīb",
"sense": "having an unusually strange character or behaviour",
"word": "عَجِيب"
},
{
"code": "ar",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "ḡarīb",
"sense": "having an unusually strange character or behaviour",
"word": "غَرِيب"
},
{
"code": "arz",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "ʕagīb",
"sense": "having an unusually strange character or behaviour",
"tags": [
"Egyptian-Arabic"
],
"word": "عجيب"
},
{
"code": "acw",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "ḡarīb",
"sense": "having an unusually strange character or behaviour",
"tags": [
"Hijazi-Arabic"
],
"word": "غَريب"
},
{
"code": "ba",
"lang": "Bashkir",
"roman": "səyer",
"sense": "having an unusually strange character or behaviour",
"word": "сәйер"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "stranen",
"sense": "having an unusually strange character or behaviour",
"word": "странен"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "qíguài",
"sense": "having an unusually strange character or behaviour",
"word": "奇怪"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "having an unusually strange character or behaviour",
"word": "divný"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "having an unusually strange character or behaviour",
"word": "zvláštní"
},
{
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "having an unusually strange character or behaviour",
"word": "mærkelig"
},
{
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "having an unusually strange character or behaviour",
"word": "besynderlig"
},
{
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "having an unusually strange character or behaviour",
"word": "ejendommelig"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "having an unusually strange character or behaviour",
"word": "vreemd"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "having an unusually strange character or behaviour",
"word": "raar"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "having an unusually strange character or behaviour",
"word": "bizar"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "having an unusually strange character or behaviour",
"word": "eigenaardig"
},
{
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "having an unusually strange character or behaviour",
"word": "stranga"
},
{
"code": "fo",
"lang": "Faroese",
"sense": "having an unusually strange character or behaviour",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"masculine"
],
"word": "løgin"
},
{
"code": "fo",
"lang": "Faroese",
"sense": "having an unusually strange character or behaviour",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "løgið"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "having an unusually strange character or behaviour",
"word": "outo"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "having an unusually strange character or behaviour",
"word": "kummallinen"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "having an unusually strange character or behaviour",
"word": "omituinen"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "having an unusually strange character or behaviour",
"word": "bizarre"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "having an unusually strange character or behaviour",
"word": "étrange"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "having an unusually strange character or behaviour",
"word": "estraño"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "having an unusually strange character or behaviour",
"word": "raro"
},
{
"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"roman": "ucnauri",
"sense": "having an unusually strange character or behaviour",
"word": "უცნაური"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "having an unusually strange character or behaviour",
"word": "seltsam"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "having an unusually strange character or behaviour",
"word": "komisch"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "having an unusually strange character or behaviour",
"word": "eigenartig"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "having an unusually strange character or behaviour",
"word": "merkwürdig"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "períergos",
"sense": "having an unusually strange character or behaviour",
"word": "περίεργος"
},
{
"code": "haw",
"lang": "Hawaiian",
"sense": "having an unusually strange character or behaviour",
"word": "āiwaiwa"
},
{
"code": "he",
"lang": "Hebrew",
"roman": "muzár",
"sense": "having an unusually strange character or behaviour",
"word": "מוזר"
},
{
"code": "hrx",
"lang": "Hunsrik",
"sense": "having an unusually strange character or behaviour",
"word": "komisch"
},
{
"code": "is",
"lang": "Icelandic",
"sense": "having an unusually strange character or behaviour",
"word": "skrýtinn"
},
{
"code": "id",
"lang": "Indonesian",
"sense": "having an unusually strange character or behaviour",
"word": "aneh"
},
{
"code": "izh",
"lang": "Ingrian",
"sense": "having an unusually strange character or behaviour",
"word": "muudra"
},
{
"code": "izh",
"lang": "Ingrian",
"sense": "having an unusually strange character or behaviour",
"word": "vastumain"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "having an unusually strange character or behaviour",
"word": "strano"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "having an unusually strange character or behaviour",
"word": "bizzarro"
},
{
"alt": "へん",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "hen",
"sense": "having an unusually strange character or behaviour",
"word": "変"
},
{
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "kawatta",
"sense": "having an unusually strange character or behaviour",
"word": "変わった"
},
{
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "okashii",
"sense": "having an unusually strange character or behaviour",
"word": "おかしい"
},
{
"code": "km",
"lang": "Khmer",
"roman": "cɑmlaek",
"sense": "having an unusually strange character or behaviour",
"word": "ចំឡែក"
},
{
"code": "lad",
"lang": "Ladino",
"sense": "having an unusually strange character or behaviour",
"word": "estranyo"
},
{
"code": "lad",
"lang": "Ladino",
"sense": "having an unusually strange character or behaviour",
"word": "toaf"
},
{
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "čudno",
"sense": "having an unusually strange character or behaviour",
"word": "чудно"
},
{
"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "having an unusually strange character or behaviour",
"word": "underlig"
},
{
"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "having an unusually strange character or behaviour",
"word": "merkelig"
},
{
"code": "ang",
"lang": "Old English",
"sense": "having an unusually strange character or behaviour",
"word": "seldcūþ"
},
{
"code": "fa",
"lang": "Persian",
"roman": "'ajib",
"sense": "having an unusually strange character or behaviour",
"word": "عجیب"
},
{
"code": "pdt",
"lang": "Plautdietsch",
"sense": "having an unusually strange character or behaviour",
"word": "schnoopichm sondaboa"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "having an unusually strange character or behaviour",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "dziwny"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "having an unusually strange character or behaviour",
"word": "estranho"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "having an unusually strange character or behaviour",
"word": "straniu"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "having an unusually strange character or behaviour",
"word": "ciudat"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "stránnyj",
"sense": "having an unusually strange character or behaviour",
"word": "стра́нный"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "pričúdlivyj",
"sense": "having an unusually strange character or behaviour",
"word": "причу́дливый"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "čudnój",
"sense": "having an unusually strange character or behaviour",
"word": "чудно́й"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "having an unusually strange character or behaviour",
"word": "raro"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "having an unusually strange character or behaviour",
"word": "cuático"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "having an unusually strange character or behaviour",
"word": "anormal"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "having an unusually strange character or behaviour",
"word": "bizarro"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "having an unusually strange character or behaviour",
"word": "konstig"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "having an unusually strange character or behaviour",
"word": "underlig"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "having an unusually strange character or behaviour",
"word": "märklig"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "having an unusually strange character or behaviour",
"word": "märkvärdig"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "having an unusually strange character or behaviour",
"word": "besynnerlig"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "having an unusually strange character or behaviour",
"word": "acayip"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "having an unusually strange character or behaviour",
"word": "garip"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "having an unusually strange character or behaviour",
"word": "tuhaf"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "having an unusually strange character or behaviour",
"word": "yadırgatıcı"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "having an unusually strange character or behaviour",
"word": "tüyler ürpertici"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "dývnyj",
"sense": "having an unusually strange character or behaviour",
"word": "ди́вний"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "čudernácʹkyj",
"sense": "having an unusually strange character or behaviour",
"word": "чудерна́цький"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "dyvácʹkyj",
"sense": "having an unusually strange character or behaviour",
"word": "дива́цький"
},
{
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "having an unusually strange character or behaviour",
"word": "kì quặc"
},
{
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "having an unusually strange character or behaviour",
"word": "kì quái"
},
{
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "having an unusually strange character or behaviour",
"word": "kì cục"
},
{
"code": "yi",
"lang": "Yiddish",
"roman": "meshunedik",
"sense": "having an unusually strange character or behaviour",
"word": "משונהדיק"
},
{
"code": "yi",
"lang": "Yiddish",
"roman": "modne",
"sense": "having an unusually strange character or behaviour",
"word": "מאָדנע"
},
{
"code": "arz",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "ʕagīb",
"sense": "deviating from the normal; bizarre",
"tags": [
"Egyptian-Arabic"
],
"word": "عجيب"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "pričudliv",
"sense": "deviating from the normal; bizarre",
"word": "причудлив"
},
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "deviating from the normal; bizarre",
"word": "rar"
},
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "deviating from the normal; bizarre",
"word": "estrany"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "qíguài",
"sense": "deviating from the normal; bizarre",
"word": "奇怪"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "deviating from the normal; bizarre",
"word": "divný"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "deviating from the normal; bizarre",
"word": "zvláštní"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "deviating from the normal; bizarre",
"word": "vreemd"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "deviating from the normal; bizarre",
"word": "raar"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "deviating from the normal; bizarre",
"word": "ongewoon"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "deviating from the normal; bizarre",
"word": "bizar"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "deviating from the normal; bizarre",
"word": "eigenaardig"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "deviating from the normal; bizarre",
"word": "merkwaardig"
},
{
"code": "fo",
"lang": "Faroese",
"sense": "deviating from the normal; bizarre",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "løgin"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "deviating from the normal; bizarre",
"word": "outo"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "deviating from the normal; bizarre",
"word": "kummallinen"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "deviating from the normal; bizarre",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"masculine"
],
"word": "bizarre"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "deviating from the normal; bizarre",
"word": "estraño"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "deviating from the normal; bizarre",
"word": "raro"
},
{
"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"roman": "ucnauri",
"sense": "deviating from the normal; bizarre",
"word": "უცნაური"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "deviating from the normal; bizarre",
"word": "eigenartig"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "deviating from the normal; bizarre",
"word": "merkwürdig"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "deviating from the normal; bizarre",
"word": "sonderbar"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "deviating from the normal; bizarre",
"word": "seltsam"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "deviating from the normal; bizarre",
"word": "bizarr"
},
{
"code": "haw",
"lang": "Hawaiian",
"sense": "deviating from the normal; bizarre",
"word": "āiwaiwa"
},
{
"code": "is",
"lang": "Icelandic",
"sense": "deviating from the normal; bizarre",
"word": "skrýtinn"
},
{
"code": "izh",
"lang": "Ingrian",
"sense": "deviating from the normal; bizarre",
"word": "muudra"
},
{
"code": "izh",
"lang": "Ingrian",
"sense": "deviating from the normal; bizarre",
"word": "vastumain"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "deviating from the normal; bizarre",
"word": "bizzarro"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "deviating from the normal; bizarre",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "bislacco"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "deviating from the normal; bizarre",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "strambo"
},
{
"alt": "へん",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "hen",
"sense": "deviating from the normal; bizarre",
"word": "変"
},
{
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "kawatta",
"sense": "deviating from the normal; bizarre",
"word": "変わった"
},
{
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "okashii",
"sense": "deviating from the normal; bizarre",
"word": "おかしい"
},
{
"code": "km",
"lang": "Khmer",
"roman": "cumləəy",
"sense": "deviating from the normal; bizarre",
"word": "ជំលើយ"
},
{
"code": "lad",
"lang": "Ladino",
"sense": "deviating from the normal; bizarre",
"word": "estranyo"
},
{
"code": "lad",
"lang": "Ladino",
"sense": "deviating from the normal; bizarre",
"word": "toaf"
},
{
"code": "ang",
"lang": "Old English",
"sense": "deviating from the normal; bizarre",
"word": "seldcūþ"
},
{
"code": "fa",
"lang": "Persian",
"roman": "'ajib-o-ğarib",
"sense": "deviating from the normal; bizarre",
"word": "عجیب و غریب"
},
{
"code": "pdt",
"lang": "Plautdietsch",
"sense": "deviating from the normal; bizarre",
"word": "schnoopich"
},
{
"code": "pdt",
"lang": "Plautdietsch",
"sense": "deviating from the normal; bizarre",
"word": "sondaboa"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "deviating from the normal; bizarre",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "dziwaczny"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "deviating from the normal; bizarre",
"word": "estranho"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "deviating from the normal; bizarre",
"word": "bizarro"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "stránnyj",
"sense": "deviating from the normal; bizarre",
"word": "стра́нный"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "pričúdlivyj",
"sense": "deviating from the normal; bizarre",
"word": "причу́дливый"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "čudnój",
"sense": "deviating from the normal; bizarre",
"word": "чудно́й"
},
{
"code": "sk",
"lang": "Slovak",
"sense": "deviating from the normal; bizarre",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "divný"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "deviating from the normal; bizarre",
"word": "raro"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "deviating from the normal; bizarre",
"word": "bizarro"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "deviating from the normal; bizarre",
"word": "cuático"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "deviating from the normal; bizarre",
"word": "extraño"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "deviating from the normal; bizarre",
"word": "konstig"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "deviating from the normal; bizarre",
"word": "underlig"
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"ref": "1974, Vernard Eller, The Most Revealing Book of the Bible: Making Sense Out of Revelation:",
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