Tra từ weird - Từ điển Oxford Advanced Learner 8th

weird [weird weirder weirdest] adjective, verb BrE [wɪəd] NAmE [wɪrd]
adjective (weird·er, weird·est)
1. very strange or unusual and difficult to explain
Syn: ↑strange
•a weird dream
•She's a really weird girl.
•He's got some weird ideas.
•It's really weird seeing yourself on television.
•the weird and wonderful creatures that live beneath the sea
2. strange in a mysterious and frightening way
Syn: ↑eerie
•She began to make weird inhuman sounds.

Word Origin:
Old English wyrd ‘destiny’, of Germanic origin. The adjective (late Middle English) originally meant ‘having the power to control destiny’, and was used especially in the Weird Sisters, originally referring to the Fates, later the witches in Shakespeare's Macbeth; the latter use gave rise to the sense ‘unearthly’ (early 19th cent.).

Example Bank:
•I started to feel really weird.
•It all sounds a bit weird to me.
•Some of their clothes were really weird and wonderful.
•He's got some weird ideas.
•I had a really weird dream last night.
•It's a weird and wonderful island full of weird and wonderful things to do.
•It's weird seeing yourself on television.
•She's a very weird girl.
Derived Words: ↑weirdly ▪ ↑weirdness
Derived: ↑weird somebody out

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Word Origin:
Old English wyrd ‘destiny’, of Germanic origin. The adjective (late Middle English) originally meant ‘having the power to control destiny’, and was used especially in the Weird Sisters, originally referring to the Fates, later the witches in Shakespeare's Macbeth; the latter use gave rise to the sense ‘unearthly’ (early 19th cent.).