Meaning of WEIRD
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- [n] Fate personified; one of the Three Weird Sisters
- [adj] strikingly odd or unusual; "some trick of the moonlight; some weird effect of shadow"- Bram Stoker
- [adj] 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
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| | Synonyms: | | eldritch, strange, supernatural, uncanny, unearthly, unusual, Wyrd |
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\Weird\ (w[=e]rd), n. [OE. wirde, werde, AS. wyrd fate,
fortune, one of the Fates, fr. weor[eth]an to be, to become;
akin to OS. wurd fate, OHG. wurt, Icel. ur[eth]r. [root]143.
See {Worth} to become.]
1. Fate; destiny; one of the Fates, or Norns; also, a
prediction. [Obs. or Scot.]
2. A spell or charm. [Obs. or Scot.] --Sir W. Scott.
\Weird\, a.
1. Of or pertaining to fate; concerned with destiny.
2. Of or pertaining to witchcraft; caused by, or suggesting,
magical influence; supernatural; unearthly; wild; as, a
weird appearance, look, sound, etc.
Myself too had weird seizures. --Tennyson.
Those sweet, low tones, that seemed like a weird
incantation. --Longfellow.
{Weird sisters}, the Fates. [Scot.] --G. Douglas.
Note: Shakespeare uses the term for the three witches in
Macbeth.
The weird sisters, hand in hand, Posters of the
sea and land. --Shak.
\Weird\, v. t.
To foretell the fate of; to predict; to destine to. [Scot.]
--Jamieson.
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