Awkward vs Weird - What's the difference?

As adjectives the difference between awkward and weird

is that awkward is lacking dexterity in the use of the hands, or of instruments while weird is connected with fate or destiny; able to influence fate.

As an adverb awkward

is in a backwards direction.

As a noun weird is

fate; destiny; luck.

As a verb weird is

to destine; doom; change by witchcraft or sorcery.

awkward

English

Adverb

(en adverb)

(obsolete) In a backwards direction.

*, Bk.V, Ch.x:

Than groned the knyght for his grymme woundis, and gyrdis to Sir Gawayne and awkewarde hym strykes, and.

Adjective

(en-adj)

Lacking dexterity in the use of the hands, or of instruments

John was awkward at performing the trick. He'll have to practice to improve.

Not easily managed or effected; embarrassing

That was an extremely awkward moment. Everyone was watching.

An awkward silence had fallen.

Lacking social skills, or uncomfortable with social interaction

I'm very awkward at parties.

Things get very awkward whenever 60-year old men use cheesy pick-up lines on me.

Perverse; adverse; difficult to handle

He's a right awkward chap.

These cabinets are going to be very awkward when we move.

Synonyms

* (lacking dexterity) clumsy, ungraceful, unhandy, lubberly * (lacking social skill) maladroit

Antonyms

* (having dexterity) dexterous, graceful, skillful, gainly * (having social skills) cool, amiable

Derived terms

* awkwardly * awkwardness

weird

English

Alternative forms

* (l) (obsolete)

Adjective

(er)

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

Those sweet, low tones, that seemed like a weird incantation.

* Shakespeare, Macbeth , Act 1 Scene 5

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!'

Having supernatural or preternatural power.

There was a weird light shining above the hill.

Having an unusually strange character or behaviour.

There are lots of weird people in this place.

Deviating from the normal; bizarre.

It was quite weird to bump into all my ex-girlfriends on the same day.

(archaic) Of or pertaining to the Fates.

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 also

Derived terms

* weirdo * weirdly * weirdness * weird out

Noun

(en noun)

(archaic) Fate; destiny; luck.

* 1912 , , trans. Arthur S. Way (Heinemenn 1946, p. 361)

In the weird of death shall the hapless be whelmed, and from Doom’s dark prison / Shall she steal forth never again.

A prediction.

(obsolete, Scotland) A spell or charm.

(Sir Walter Scott)

That which comes to pass; a fact.

(archaic, in the plural) The Fates (personified).

Synonyms

* (l)

Derived terms

* * weirdless

Verb

(en verb)

To destine; doom; change by witchcraft or sorcery.

To warn solemnly; adjure.

See weird out .

That joke really weirded me out.

Anagrams

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