Cringe vs Weird - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between cringe and weird

is that cringe is a posture or gesture of shrinking or recoiling while weird is fate; destiny; luck.

As verbs the difference between cringe and weird

is that cringe is to bow or crouch in servility while weird is to destine; doom; change by witchcraft or sorcery.

As an adjective weird is

connected with fate or destiny; able to influence fate.

cringe

English

Alternative forms

* (dialectal)

Noun

(en noun)

A posture or gesture of shrinking or recoiling.

He glanced with a cringe at the mess on his desk.

(dialect) A crick.

Verb

(dated) To bow or crouch in servility.

* Milton

Sly hypocrite, who more than thou / Once fawned and cringed , and servilely adored / Heaven's awful monarch?

* 1903 , ,

He heard the hateful clank of their chains; he felt them cringe and grovel, and there rose within him a protest and a prophecy.

* 1904 , ,

Leclere was bent on the coming of the day when Batard should wilt in spirit and cringe and whimper at his feet.

To shrink, tense or recoil, as in fear, disgust or embarrassment.

He cringed as the bird collided with the window.

* Bunyan

When they were come up to the place where the lions were, the boys that went before were glad to cringe behind, for they were afraid of the lions.

* 1917 , ,

But he made no whimper. Nor did he wince or cringe to the blows. He bored straight in, striving, without avoiding a blow, to beat and meet the blow with his teeth.

(obsolete) To contract; to draw together; to cause to shrink or wrinkle; to distort.

* Shakespeare

Till like a boy you see him cringe his face, / And whine aloud for mercy.

Derived terms

* cringeworthy

Anagrams

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

* * * English words not following the I before E except after C rule ----