Amazing vs Weird - What's the difference?
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* 1848 , John Bunyan and Robert Philip, The Greatness of the Soul: And the Unspeakableness of the Loss Thereof , page 29, T. Nelson
* 1909 , John Fryer and William Crooke, A New Account of East India and Persia: Being Nine Years' Travels, 1672-1681 , page 92, Hakluyt Society
* 1996 August 5, Tim Behrendsen, "Tim Behrendsen Lost and Spaced THE FINAL TRY", rec.games.computer.quake.misc, Usenet
* 1997 November 30, Sir Frederick, "Pro-Mormons are amazing also", alt.religion.mormon.fellowship, Usenet
* 1999 July 13, Irma Dobkin and Mary Jo Peterson, Gracious Spaces , page xix, McGraw-Hill Professional
* 2000 March 24, "Shadow", "Return of the Fulgore Rant!", alt.fan.dragons, Usenet
* 2001 February 3, Brian, "D3 weird FPS", alt.games.descent Usenet
* 2003 June 23, Thomas Bernhard, Three Novellas , page 31, University of Chicago Press
* 2004 October 23, MgClearwater, "George says: Joe and Brian stay..", alt.sports.baseball.ny-yankees, Usenet
* 2006 May 16, Simon Baird, "monkeyGTD is amazing- a few questions and suggestions", GTD TiddlyWiki, Google goups
Connected with fate or destiny; able to influence fate.
Of or pertaining to witches or witchcraft; supernatural; unearthly; suggestive of witches, witchcraft, or unearthliness; wild; uncanny.
* Longfellow
* Shakespeare, Macbeth , Act 1 Scene 5
Having supernatural or preternatural power.
Having an unusually strange character or behaviour.
Deviating from the normal; bizarre.
(archaic) Of or pertaining to the Fates.
(archaic) Fate; destiny; luck.
* 1912 , , trans. Arthur S. Way (Heinemenn 1946, p. 361)
A prediction.
(obsolete, Scotland) A spell or charm.
That which comes to pass; a fact.
(archaic, in the plural) The Fates (personified).
To destine; doom; change by witchcraft or sorcery.
To warn solemnly; adjure.
See weird out .
As a verb amazing
is .As an adjective amazing
is causing wonder and amazement; possessing uniquely wonderful qualities.As a noun weird is
(acronym) western, educated, industrialized, rich and democratic.amazing
English
Verb
(head)- How many things have men found out to the amazing of one another, to the wonderment of one another, to the begetting of endless commendations of one another in the world
- Fancies to be persuaded of the confused Articulation of Multitudes met as in a Fair, conversing and making a chattering, to the amazing of them all.
- Amazing is judged relative what already exists, and Quake has the best underwater effects so far.
- Reality, especially God's Reality is amazing. For instance that there is something rather than nothing is amazing. [... ] Amazing is amazing.
- The amazing is happening.
- All that is impossibly amazing is considered nothing, and the impossibly amazing is considered normal.
- The amazing is that, in EXACTLY the same situation, the demo2 doesn't show this problem.
- Everything that amazes has its method, until we notice that the amazing is not amazing, has no method.
- Sheffield is an amazing athlete, how much of the amazing is provided from the Chemlab.
- Cool! Of course 99% of the amazing is due to the "powered by TiddlyWiki" part of MonkeyGTD.. :)
Synonyms
* SeeDerived terms
* amazingly * amazingnessReferences
* *weird
English
Alternative forms
* (l) (obsolete)Adjective
(er)- Those sweet, low tones, that seemed like a weird incantation.
- Whiles I stood rapt in the wonder of it, came missives from the king, who all-hailed me, 'Thane of Cawdor'; by which title, before, these weird sisters saluted me, and referred me to the coming on of time, with 'Hail, king that shalt be!'
- There was a weird light shining above the hill.
- There are lots of weird people in this place.
- It was quite weird to bump into all my ex-girlfriends on the same day.
Usage notes
* Weird is one of the most noted exceptions to the (I before E except after C) spelling heuristic.Synonyms
* (having supernatural or preternatural power) eerie, uncanny * (unusually strange in character or behaviour) fremd, oddball, peculiar, whacko * (deviating from the normal) bizarre, fremd, odd, out of the ordinary, strange * (of or pertaining to the Fates) fateful * See alsoDerived terms
* weirdo * weirdly * weirdness * weird outNoun
(en noun)- In the weird of death shall the hapless be whelmed, and from Doom’s dark prison / Shall she steal forth never again.
- (Sir Walter Scott)
Synonyms
* (l)Derived terms
* * weirdlessVerb
(en verb)- That joke really weirded me out.