What is the difference between bizarre and weird?
bizarre | weird |
strangely unconventional in style or appearance.
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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.
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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 adjectives the difference between bizarre and weird
is that bizarre is strangely unconventional in style or appearance while weird is connected with fate or destiny; able to influence fate.As a noun weird is
(archaic|except in scots) fate; destiny; luck.As a verb weird is
to destine; doom; change by witchcraft or sorcery.bizarre
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Adjective
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Usage notes
The more'' and ''most forms are the most common comparative and superlative forms. While (bizarrest) is encountered not infrequently and is acceptable in most situations, (bizarrer) is rare and non-standard.Synonyms
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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.