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weird is an adjective and noun meaning "suggesting the operation of supernatural influences". It carries 3 recorded senses.
suggesting the operation of supernatural influences
“an eldritch screech”
“the three weird sisters”
“stumps...had uncanny shapes as of monstrous creatures”
“an unearthly light”
“he could hear the unearthly scream of some curlew piercing the din”
fate personified; any one of the three Weird Sisters
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for weird come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.