Usually means: Deviation from the expected norm.
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We found 34 dictionaries that define the word weird:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. weird: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. weird: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. weird: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. weird: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Weird, weird: Vocabulary.com
  6. Weird, weird: Wordnik
  7. weird: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. WEIRD, weird: Wiktionary
  9. weird: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. weird: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. weird: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. weird: Dictionary.com
  13. weird: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. weird: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. The Weird (comics), The Weird, WEIRD, Weird (Hanson song), Weird (album), Weird (comics), Weird (disambiguation), Weird: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Weird: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. weird: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. Weird: Rhymezone
  19. weird: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. weird: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. weird: Free Dictionary
  22. weird: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. weird: Dictionary/thesaurus
  24. Weird: World Wide Words
  25. weird: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. weird: Legal dictionary

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. WEIRD: Acronym Finder
  2. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  3. weird: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. weird, weird: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Weird: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See weirding as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Having an unusually strange character or behaviour.
adjective:  Deviating from the normal; bizarre.
adjective:  Relating to weird fiction ("a macabre subgenre of speculative fiction").
adjective:  (archaic) Of or pertaining to the Fates.
adjective:  (archaic) Connected with fate or destiny; able to influence fate.
adjective:  (archaic) Of or pertaining to witches or witchcraft; supernatural; unearthly; suggestive of witches, witchcraft, or unearthliness; wild; uncanny.
adjective:  (archaic) Having supernatural or preternatural power.
noun:  (archaic) Fate; destiny; luck.
noun:  A prediction.
noun:  (obsolete, Scotland) A spell or charm.
noun:  That which comes to pass; a fact.
noun:  (archaic, in the plural, personification) The Fates.
noun:  (informal) Weirdness.
verb:  (transitive) To destine; doom; change by witchcraft or sorcery.
verb:  (transitive) To warn solemnly; adjure.
adverb:  (nonstandard) In a strange manner.
adjective:  Acronym of Western, educated, industrialized, rich and democratic. [Of, situated in, or related to the West.]

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