Weird (Hanson song)
WordNet
adjective
(1) Strikingly odd or unusual
"Some trick of the moonlight; some weird effect of shadow"- Bram Stoker
(2) 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
noun
(3) Fate personified; one of the three Weird Sisters
WiktionaryText
Etymology
From , through .
Adjective
- Having supernatural or preternatural power.
- Having an unusually strange character or behaviour.
- Deviating from the normal; bizarre.
- Of or pertaining to the Fates.
Synonyms
- eerie
- uncanny
- See also Wikisaurus:strange
Noun
- fate or destiny
- 1912, Euripides, Medea, trans. Arthur S. Way (Heinemenn 1946, p. 361)
- In the weird of death shall the hapless be whelmed, and from Doom’s dark prison / Shall she steal forth never again.
- 1912, Euripides, Medea, trans. Arthur S. Way (Heinemenn 1946, p. 361)
- The Fates.
Verb
- To make someone feel strange.
- Hey man, you’re weirding me out.
Etymology
From , through .