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weird

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"Strange"

5 letters · collected on this word page

5 lettersPronunciation /ˈwɪə(ɹ)d/Part of speech adjective, nounSorted deirwStarts with WEnds with D1 cluesVery common crossword word
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Definitions

  1. strikingly odd or unusual

Word origin

From Middle English werde, wierde, wirde, wyrede, wurde, from Old English wyrd (“fate”), from Proto-West Germanic *wurdi, from Proto-Germanic *wurdiz, from Proto-Indo-European *wert- (“to turn, wind”). Cognate with Icelandic urður (“fate”). Related to Old English weorþan (“to become”); more at worth (verb).

Used in a sentence

  • There are lots of weird people in this place.
  • It was quite weird to bump into all my ex-girlfriends on the same day.
  • It was weird for him to watch boys play with Barbie dolls.

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