Synonyms for weird
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1. weirdadjective

   Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich and Democratic

   Synonyms:
   fremd, bizarre, whacko, strange, out of the ordinary, peculiar, odd, oddball, fateful, eerie, uncanny

2. weirdadjective

   To warn solemnly; adjure.

   Synonyms:
   eerie, odd, whacko, strange, out of the ordinary, fateful, fremd, peculiar, oddball, bizarre, uncanny

3. weirdadjective

   Having supernatural or preternatural power.

   That joke really weirded me out.

   Synonyms:
   eerie, bizarre, fateful, uncanny, fremd, strange, oddball, whacko, peculiar, out of the ordinary, odd

4. weirdadjective

   Having an unusually strange character or behaviour.

   There are lots of weird people in this place.

   Synonyms:
   odd, whacko, fremd, strange, eerie, oddball, peculiar, fateful, uncanny, bizarre, out of the ordinary

5. weirdadjective

   The Fates (personified).

   It was quite weird to bump into all my ex-boyfriends on the same day.

   Synonyms:
   odd, fremd, peculiar, fateful, eerie, bizarre, oddball, whacko, strange, uncanny, out of the ordinary

6. weirdadjective

   Of or pertaining to the Fates.

   Synonyms:
   strange, uncanny, fateful, whacko, oddball, out of the ordinary, eerie, peculiar, fremd, odd, bizarre

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1. Wyrd, Weirdadjective

   fate personified; any one of the three Weird Sisters

   Antonyms:
   natural, familiar

2. eldritch, weird, uncanny, unearthlyadjective

   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

   Synonyms:
   preternatural, spiritual, uncanny, unearthly, eldritch

   Antonyms:
   familiar, natural

3. weirdadjective

   strikingly odd or unusual

   "some trick of the moonlight; some weird effect of shadow"- Bram Stoker

   Synonyms:
   uncanny, unearthly, eldritch

   Antonyms:
   familiar, natural

Editors ContributionRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. ostrobogulous

   used to describe something that is weird or strange

   this dog is very ostrobogulous

   Submitted by rinat on August 7, 2019  

2. outlandishadjective

   Submitted by Providence on July 15, 2023  

3. super natural

   something that is unreal, fake

   when percy jackson saw chiron he thought it was so super natural.

   Submitted by anonymous on April 2, 2020  

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1. List of paraphrases for "weird":

   strange, odd, bizarre, funny, freaky, awkward, creepy, peculiar, weirdo, bizarro, curious, funny-looking, quirky, squirrelly, -weird, strangely

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1. Kelly Ripa:

   What's interesting is we usually text each other 15 times before the show. Yet we still have things to say on the air, which is weird.

2. Barry Schwartz:

   Pretty ugly today. Sour moods out in the markets, we've had a pretty good start to the year for the Toronto market. It's beaten some of the other U.S. indices and it's having a pretty good month. End of the month can always be wacky and weird and people are positioning their portfolios.

3. Sophia Bush:

   There was this sort of really weird thing... you look back at it, at the time I didn't realize how inappropriate it was, but again, this is a long time ago, i remember my boss kept writing scenes for me to be in my underwear. And I was like, 'I'm not doing this, this is inappropriate. Like, I don't think this is what we should be teaching 16-year-old girls to be doing and to be seeking validation this way.'.

4. Judith Zackson:

   During a crisis and isolation, many take an inventory of their lives and dare to be themselves, and engage in weird, creative, and non-conforming patterns.

5. Sundance Morgen:

   They don't have titles. Before people saw the movie, there were these weird press releases focusing on the unreleased music. And it's like: It's a movie. We're not going to stop it and play a song for four minutes, but nobody in Kurt's life — not his management, wife, bandmates — had ever heard his Beatles thing [a snippet of 'And I Love Her']. I found it on a random tape. It's a Paul [McCartney] song. How's that for shattering the myth?