WEIRD
What does "WEIRD" mean?
Strange, uncanny, or unsettling in a way that is hard to explain.
Meanings
- Strikingly odd or out of the ordinary. It felt weird to walk into an empty office on a Monday.
- Suggesting something supernatural or eerie. A weird green light flickered over the marsh. literary
- Fate or destiny; one's appointed lot. He went to meet his weird without complaint. archaic
Did you know?
- 'Weird' once meant 'fate.' It only came to mean 'strange' because Shakespeare's three 'weird sisters' in Macbeth - the Fates - were so eerie that the word absorbed their atmosphere.
Word origin
From Old English 'wyrd', meaning fate or destiny; the modern 'strange' sense was popularized by Shakespeare's 'weird sisters' in Macbeth, the three Fates who shape Macbeth's doom.
Remember it
WEIRD breaks the 'i before e' rule - which is itself a little weird. Let the exception remind you of the word.
A little poem
Three women, one loom -
they spell your name in spun thread.
Odd how fate looks plain.
haiku
Wordplay
- Why is 'weird' spelled w-e-i-r-d? Because it refuses to follow the rule that everyone agreed on - which is the most weird thing it could possibly do.
What it teaches
What we call weird is often just fate arriving in an unfamiliar shape.
Quick facts
What does WEIRD mean?
Strange, uncanny, or unsettling in a way that is hard to explain.
Is WEIRD a valid word?
Yes — WEIRD is one of the answer words in Wordul, the daily word game.
How many letters is WEIRD?
WEIRD has 5 letters and 1 syllable.
Where does WEIRD come from?
From Old English 'wyrd', meaning fate or destiny; the modern 'strange' sense was popularized by Shakespeare's 'weird sisters' in Macbeth, the three Fates who shape Macbeth's doom.
What can WEIRD teach us?
What we call weird is often just fate arriving in an unfamiliar shape.
How players do
Be the first to solve it.