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单词 weird
释义 weird
I. \ˈwi(ə)rd, -i(ə)d\ noun
(-s)
Etymology: Middle English wierd, werd, wird, from Old English wyrd; akin to Old High German wurt fate, Old Norse urthr weird, fate, Old English weorthan to become — more at worth
1.
 a. : fate, destiny, lot, fortune; especially : ill fortune : a disastrous destiny
 b. usually capitalized : fate I 3, norn
2.
 a. : soothsayer
 b. : spell, charm
 c. : a supernatural tale
3. : prophecy, prediction
II. transitive verb
(-ed/-ing/-s)
Etymology: Middle English (Scots) weirden, werden, from wierd, werd fate
1. Scotland : to assign to a certain fate : destine
2. Scotland : to foretell or assign as a fate : predict
III. adjective
(-er/-est)
Etymology: Middle English (Scots) werd, from werd, n., fate
1. archaic : of, relating to, or dealing with fate or the Fates
2.
 a. : of or relating to witchcraft or to the supernatural : caused by or suggesting magical influence
  < Spanish horses, which appeared as weird centaurs to the amazed Indians — R.W.Murray >
  < weird stories of the supernatural, rousing terror and pity — Frank Monaghan >
 b. : unearthly, mysterious
  < a weird desert of congealed lava — Tom Marvel >
  < around the sun appears the weird, pearly corona seen on earth only during total eclipses — Waldemar Kaempffert >
  < the weird, ringing voices of veeries — W.P.Smith >
3. : curious in nature or appearance : of strange or extraordinary character : odd, unusual, fantastic
 < some trick of the moonlight, some weird effect of shadow — Bram Stoker >
 < in this section grow many weird varieties of cactus — American Guide Series: Texas >
 < weird prophets popped up everywhere — G.W.Johnson >
 < some of his statements on local and state politics are a bit weird — G.E.Mowry >
Synonyms:
 weird, eerie, and uncanny agree in the sense of fearfully or mysteriously strange or fantastic. weird applies in one sense to something unearthly or preternaturally mysterious; in another sense, to something strangely or absurdly queer
  < something a trifle weird about leaving the little man alone among those dead servants — G.K.Chesterton >
  < a touch of the weird or ghostly — P.E.More >
  < a procession of weird characters: sorcerers, syndics, half-wits, adolescent girls in pregnancy, hermaphrodites — Richard Plant >
  < preaching a weird interpretation of the Scriptures — American Guide Series: Ind. >
  eerie suggests an uneasy, often fearful premonition that malign powers or influences are at work
  < some eerie moments among the corpses — Times Literary Supplement >
  < the flutes keep up an eerie wail — Horace Sutton >
  < the poem has an eerie quality, like that of dream or of neurosis — Yvor Winters >
  < the spruce trees and rocks loomed out of the fog in eerie, blurred shapes — Jean Potter >
  uncanny suggests in one sense uncomfortable strangeness or mysteriousness; in another more common sense, merely beyond ordinary powers to comprehend or as though supernatural
  < some uncanny apparition in a graveyard >
  < the machines operate with uncanny precision at high speeds — Envelope >
  < the natives display uncanny proficiency in detecting the whereabouts of fish — Bill Beatty >
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