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weird
 (wîrd)
KEY
ADJECTIVE: weird·er , weird·est
weird·ed , weird·ing , weirds
ETYMOLOGY: Middle English werde, fate, having power to control fate, from Old English wyrd, fate; see wer- 2 in Indo-European roots OTHER FORMS: weird  ly
(Adverb),
weirdness
(Noun)
SYNONYMS: weird , eerie , uncanny , unearthly These adjectives refer to what is of a mysteriously strange, usually frightening nature. Weird may suggest the operation of supernatural influences, or merely the odd or unusual: "The person of the house gave a weird little laugh" (Charles Dickens). "There is a weird power in a spoken word" (Joseph Conrad). Something eerie inspires fear or uneasiness and implies a sinister influence: "At nightfall on the marshes, the thing was eerie and fantastic to behold" (Robert Louis Stevenson). Uncanny refers to what is unnatural and peculiarly unsettling: "The queer stumps ... had uncanny shapes, as of monstrous creatures" (John Galsworthy). Something unearthly seems so strange and unnatural as to come from or belong to another world: "He could hear the unearthly scream of some curlew piercing the din" (Henry Kingsley).
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