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What is the difference between strange and weird?

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Weird is a synonym of strange.



As adjectives the difference between strange and weird

is that strange is not normal; odd, unusual, surprising, out of the ordinary while weird is connected with fate or destiny; able to influence fate.

As verbs the difference between strange and weird

is that strange is to alienate; to estrange while weird is to destine; doom; change by witchcraft or sorcery.

As nouns the difference between strange and weird

is that strange is vagina while weird is fate; destiny; luck.

As a proper noun Strange

is {{surname}.

strange

English

Adjective

(er)
  • Not normal; odd, unusual, surprising, out of the ordinary.
    • He thought it strange that his girlfriend wore shorts in the winter.
  • * Milton
    • Sated at length, erelong I might perceive / Strange alteration in me.
  • Unfamiliar, not yet part of one's experience.
    • I moved to a strange town when I was ten.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Here is the hand and seal of the duke; you know the character, I doubt not; and the signet is not strange to you.
  • * 1955 , edition, ISBN 0553249592, pages 48–49:
    • She's probably sitting there hoping a couple of strange detectives will drop in.
  • (physics) Having the quantum mechanical property of strangeness.
  • * 2004 Frank Close, Particle Physics: A Very Short Introduction , Oxford, page 93:
    • A strange quark is electrically charged, carrying an amount -1/3, as does the down quark.
  • (obsolete) Belonging to another country; foreign.
  • * Shakespeare
    • one of the strange queen's lords
  • * Ascham
    • I do not contemn the knowledge of strange and divers tongues.
  • (obsolete) Reserved; distant in deportment.
  • * Shakespeare
    • She may be strange and shy at first, but will soon learn to love thee.
    (Nathaniel Hawthorne)
  • (obsolete) Backward; slow.
  • * Beaumont and Fletcher
    • Who, loving the effect, would not be strange / In favouring the cause.
  • (obsolete) Not familiar; unaccustomed; inexperienced.
  • * Shakespeare
    • In thy fortunes am unlearned and strange .

    Synonyms

    * (not normal) bizarre, fremd, odd, out of the ordinary, peculiar, queer, singular, unwonted, weird * (qualifier, not part of one's experience): new, unfamiliar, unknown * See also

    Antonyms

    * (not normal) everyday, normal, regular (especially US), standard, usual, unsurprising * (qualifier, not part of one's experience): familiar, known

    Derived terms

    * for some strange reason * like a cat in a strange garret * strange as it may seem * strange bird * strangelet * strange matter * strange quark * strangely * strangeness * strangeonium * stranger things happen at sea, stranger things have happened at sea * strange to say * truth is stranger than fiction

    Related terms

    * estrange, estranged * stranger

    Verb

    (strang)
  • (obsolete) To alienate; to estrange.
  • (obsolete) To be estranged or alienated.
  • (obsolete) To wonder; to be astonished.
    • (Glanvill)

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    Noun

    (no plural)
  • (slang, uncountable) vagina
    • ----

    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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