What is the meaning of weird?

noun

  • Fate personified; any one of the three Weird Sisters.

adjective

  • 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
  • Strikingly odd or unusual. "some trick of the moonlight; some weird effect of shadow- Bram Stoker
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