weirdest

Adjective

weird (comparative weirder, superlative weirdest)

1. Having an unusually strange character or behaviour.
   • There are lots of weird people in this place.

   Synonyms:

   odd, oddball, peculiar, strange, wacko, 5150, bananas, barking, barking mad, buggish

2. Deviating from the normal; bizarre.
   • It was quite weird to bump into all my ex-girlfriends on the same day.

   Synonyms:

   bizarre, odd, out of the ordinary, strange, fremd, aberrant, abnormal, alien, anomalous, as queer as Dick's hatband

3. Relating to weird fiction ("a macabre subgenre of speculative fiction").
   • a weird story
4. (archaic senses) Belonging, pertaining, or related to fate, destiny, or to the Fates; able to influence fate.
   • Whiles I ſtood rapt in the wonder of it, came Miſſiues from the King, who all-hail'd me Thane of Cawdor, by which Title before, these weyward Sisters saluted me, and referr'd me to the comming on of time, with haile, King that ſhalt be.c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount...

   Synonyms:

   fateful, foreordained, predestined, bashert, destined, doomed, fated, fatidic, predevote, preordained

5. (archaic senses) Related to witches or witchcraft; supernatural; unearthly; suggestive of witches, witchcraft or unearthliness; uncanny; unearthly.
   • Those sweet, low tones, that seemed like a weird incantation.1847 November 1, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Evangeline, a Tale of Acadie, Boston, Mass.: William D. Ticknor & Company, →OCLC, part I, page 134

   Synonyms:

   witchish, witchlike, witchly, witchy, magicianlike, magicianly, magiciany, wizardlike, wizardly, wizardy

6. (broadly, archaic senses) Having super- or preternatural power.
   • Naphtha lamps shed a weird light over a busy scene, for the work was being continued night and day. A score or so of sturdy navvies were shovelling and picking along the track.1912, Victor Whitechurch, Thrilling Stories of the Railway

   Synonyms:

   eerie, spooky, uncanny

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