weird

adjective6

1. •
   very strange, and acting or seeming not at all like others

   • 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. •
   Related to witches or witchcraft; supernatural; unearthly; suggestive of witches, witchcraft or unearthliness; uncanny; unearthly.

   • Those sweet, low tones, that seemed like a weird incantation. — 1847
4. •
   Having super- or preternatural power.

   • 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
5. •
   Relating to weird fiction ("a macabre subgenre of speculative fiction").
6. •
   Belonging, pertaining, or related to fate, destiny, or to the Fates; able to influence fate.

noun6

1. •
   That which comes to pass; a fact.
2. •
   (informal) Weirdness.
3. •
   A prediction.
4. •
   (no longer used) Fate; destiny; luck.

   • Step by reluctant step, he had come to know his weird. The North must be saved from her. — 1965
5. •
   (Scotland, no longer used) A spell or charm.
6. •
   [in the plural] (no longer used) The Fates.

verb2

1. •
   To destine; doom; change by witchcraft or sorcery.
2. •
   To warn solemnly; adjure.

adverb1

1. •
   (nonstandard) In a strange manner.

   • 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

adjective1

1. •
   Acronym of Western, educated, industrialized, rich, and democratic.

   • Our examination of the representativeness of WEIRD subjects is necessarily restricted to the rather limited database currently available. — 2009