Definition of "weird" in English

adjective

1. Having an unusually strange character or behaviour.

   • There are lots of weird people in this place.

2. Deviating from the normal; bizarre.

   • It was quite weird to bump into all my ex-girlfriends on the same day.
   • It was weird for him to watch boys play with Barbie dolls.

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

   • a weird story

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.

   • There was a weird light shining above the hill.

noun

1. (archaic) Fate; destiny; luck.

2. A prediction.

3. (obsolete, Scotland) A spell or charm.

4. That which comes to pass; a fact.

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

6. (informal) Weirdness.

verb

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

2. (transitive) To warn solemnly; adjure.

adverb

1. (nonstandard) In a strange manner.