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Definition of WEIRD
1. Adjective. Suggesting the operation of supernatural influences. "He could hear the unearthly scream of some curlew piercing the din"
2. Noun. Fate personified; any one of the three Weird Sisters.
3. Adjective. Strikingly odd or unusual. "Some trick of the moonlight; some weird effect of shadow"
Definition of WEIRD
1. n. Fate; destiny; one of the Fates, or Norns; also, a prediction.
2. a. Of or pertaining to fate; concerned with destiny.
3. v. t. To foretell the fate of; to predict; to destine to.
4. n. Fate; destiny; one of the Fates, or Norns; also, a prediction.
5. a. Of or pertaining to fate; concerned with destiny.
6. v. t. To foretell the fate of; to predict; to destine to.
Definition of WEIRD
1. Noun. Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich and Democratic ¹
2. Noun. (archaic except in Scots) Fate; destiny; luck. ¹
3. Noun. A prediction. ¹
4. Noun. A spell or charm. ¹
5. Noun. That which comes to pass; a fact. ¹
6. Noun. (archaic in the plural) The Fates (personified). ¹
7. Adjective. Connected with fate or destiny; able to influence fate. ¹
8. Adjective. Of or pertaining to witches or witchcraft; supernatural; unearthly; suggestive of witches, witchcraft, or unearthliness; wild; uncanny. ¹
9. Adjective. Having supernatural or preternatural power. ¹
10. Adjective. Having an unusually strange character or behaviour. ¹
11. Adjective. Deviating from the normal; bizarre. ¹
12. Adjective. (archaic) Of or pertaining to the Fates. ¹
13. Verb. (transitive) To destine; doom; change by witchcraft or sorcery. ¹
14. Verb. (transitive) To warn solemnly; adjure. ¹
15. Verb. (transitive) To make (one) feel weird; make uneasy or uncomfortable due to weirdness; strike one as being weird. ¹
16. Adjective. (obsolete spelling of weird) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of WEIRD
1. to cause to experience a strange sensation [v -ED, -ING, -S] / mysteriously strange [adj WEIRDER, WEIRDEST]
Medical Definition of WEIRD
1. 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. Shakespeare uses the term for the three witches in Macbeth. "The weird sisters, hand in hand, Posters of the sea and land." (Shak) Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
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