weirdadjective
uk/wɪəd/us/wɪrd/B2 very strange and unusual, unexpected, or not natural:
He was sitting alone by a window with a weird contraption on the table in front of him.
Her boyfriend's a bit weird but she's nice.
That's weird - I thought I left my keys on the table but they're not there.
There is nothing to rival the weird and wonderful things that come out on the Rio streets at carnival time.
More examples
- She'd cooked up some weird scheme that was going to earn her a fortune.
- Jimi Hendrix loved to fling his guitar around to get weird and wonderful sounds from the feedback.
- Some people think I'm weird doing meditation, but it works for me and that's all that matters.
- I heard some weird noises coming from outside.
- The table was covered with all sorts of weird and wonderful food.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Strange, suspicious and unnatural
- aberrant
- abnormal
- add
- bizarre
- curious
- funny ha-ha or funny peculiar? idiom
- kinky
- kooky
- like nothing (else) on earth idiom
- like nothing on earth idiom
- not add up idiom
- peculiarly
- random
- rum
- sicko
- singularity
- singularly
- suss
- whacky
- whimsical
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weirdly
adverb uk/ˈwɪəd.li/us/ˈwɪrd.li/
weirdness
noun [ U ] uk/ˈwɪəd.nəs/us/ˈwɪrd.nəs/