weird

There are lots of weird people in this place.

Having an unusually strange character or behaviour.

It was quite weird to bump into all my ex-girlfriends on the same day.

The best recent VC discs start from the relentlessness of gabber and digital hardcore, and yank it in a weirder direction.

1999, SPIN, volume 15, number 3, page 145:

[…] filled with laphet. Fermented tea leaves kneaded with peanut oil, laphet is, hands-down, Myanmar's weirdest and most wonderful contribution to world cuisine.

2002 August, Gourmet, volume 62, numbers 7-12, page 71:

a weird story

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)

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:

Relating to weird fiction ("a macabre subgenre of speculative fiction").

(archaic) Of or pertaining to the Fates.

(archaic) Connected with fate or destiny; able to influence fate.

Whiles I ſtood rapt in the wonder of it, came Miſſiues from the King, who all-hail'd me Thane of Cawdor, by which Title before, these weyward Sisters saluted me, and referr'd me to the comming on of time, with haile, King that ſhalt be.

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:

Those sweet, low tones, that seemed like a weird incantation.

1847 November 1, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Evangeline, a Tale of Acadie, Boston, Mass.: William D. Ticknor & Company, →OCLC, part I, page 134:

It may be in that dark hour at the burn-foot, before the spate caught her, she had been given grace to resist her adversary and fling herself upon God's mercy. And it would seem that it had been granted; for when he came to the Skerburnfoot, there in the corner sat the weird wife Alison, dead as a stone.

1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide:

Naphtha lamps shed a weird light over a busy scene, for the work was being continued night and day. A score or so of sturdy navvies were shovelling and picking along the track.

1912, Victor Whitechurch, Thrilling Stories of the Railway:

(archaic) Of or pertaining to witches or witchcraft; supernatural; unearthly; suggestive of witches, witchcraft, or unearthliness; wild; uncanny.

There was a weird light shining above the hill.

(archaic) Having supernatural or preternatural power.

en-adj

weird (comparative weirder, superlative weirdest)

weirder (comparative)
weirdest (superlative)
weïrd (alternative obsolete)
wierd (alternative obsolete)
weyard (alternative)
weyward (alternative)

عَجِيب

having an unusually strange character or behaviour

свръхествствен

having supernatural or preternatural power

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.


weird

Step by reluctant step, he had come to know his weird. The North must be saved from her.

1965, Poul Anderson, The Corridors of Time, page 226:

In the weird of death shall the hapless be whelmed, and from Doom’s dark prison
 Shall she steal forth never again.

1912, Arthur S. Way, transl., Medea, Heinemenn, translation of original by Euripides, published 1946, page 361:

Thou shalt bear thy penance lone
In the Valley of Saint John,
And this weird shall overtake thee

1813, Walter Scott, The Bridal of Triermain:

(archaic, in the plural, personification) The Fates.

You know why it feels so good to be amongst real friends? They allow you to be your weird and love you for it. Imagine how it would feel to freely let your weird out and have the world love you for it.

2019, Justin Blackburn, The Bisexual Christian Suburban Failure Enlightening Bipolar Blues, page 33:

weirds (plural)
weïrd (alternative obsolete)
wierd (alternative obsolete)
weyard (alternative)
weyward (alternative)


weird

(transitive) To destine; doom; change by witchcraft or sorcery.

en-verb

weird (third-person singular simple present weirds, present participle weirding, simple past and past participle weirded)

weirds (present singular third-person)
weirding (participle present)
weirded (participle past)
weirded (past)
weïrd (alternative obsolete)
wierd (alternative obsolete)
weyard (alternative)
weyward (alternative)


weird

I waltzed into that club just as straight as a goose and I kept tripping over things and people were looking at me weird.

1972, Edwin Shrake, Strange Peaches: A Novel:

Man, you're talking weird!

1974, Vernard Eller, The Most Revealing Book of the Bible: Making Sense Out of Revelation:

weïrd (alternative obsolete)
wierd (alternative obsolete)
weyard (alternative)
weyward (alternative)