Weird vs Dumb - What's the difference?
weird | dumb |
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 .
(label) Unable to speak; lacking power of speech.
* Hooker
(label) Silent; unaccompanied by words.
* Shakespeare
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* J. C. Shairp
extremely stupid.
(label) Pointless, foolish, lacking intellectual content or value.
Lacking brightness or clearness, as a colour.
* De Foe
To silence.
* 1911 , Lindsay Swift, William Lloyd Garrison , p. 272,
To make stupid.
* 2003 , Angela Calabrese Barton, Teaching Science for Social Justice , p. 124,
To represent as stupid.
* 2004 , Stephen Oppenheimer, The Real Eve: Modern Man's Journey Out of Africa , p. 107,
To reduce the intellectual demands of.
* 2002 , Deborah Meier, In Schools We Trust: Creating Communities of Learning in an Era of Testing , p. 126,
In transitive terms the difference between weird and dumb
is that weird is See weird out while dumb is to reduce the intellectual demands of.As a noun weird
is fate; destiny; luck.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.
Anagrams
* * * English words not following the I before E except after C rule ----dumb
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) dumb, from (etyl) . In ordinary spoken English, a phrase like "He is dumb" is interpreted as "He is stupid" rather than "He lacks the power of speech". The latter example, however, is the original sense of the word. The senses of stupid'', ''unintellectual'', and ''pointless developed under the influence of the (etyl) word dumm.Adjective
(er)- to unloose the very tongues even of dumb creatures
- dumb show
- This spirit, dumb to us, will speak to him.
- to pierce into the dumb past
- You are so dumb ! You don't even know how to make toast!
- This is dumb ! We're driving in circles! We should have asked for directions an hour ago!
- Brendan had the dumb job of moving boxes from one conveyor belt to another.
- Her stern was painted of a dumb white or dun color.
Synonyms
* (unable to speak) dumbstruck, mute, speechless, wordless * (stupid) feeble-minded, idiotic, moronic, stupid * banal, brainless, dopey, silly, stupid, ridiculous, vulgarDerived terms
* dumb as a box of rocks * dumben * dumbhood * dummy * dumbnessEtymology 2
From (etyl) dumbien, from (etyl) dumbian (more commonly in compound .Verb
(en verb)- The paralysis of the Northern conscience, the dumbing of the Northern voice, were coming to an end.
- I think she's dumbing us down, so we won't be smarter than her.
- Bad-mouthing Neanderthals . . . is symptomatic of a need to exclude and even demonize. . . . I suggest that the unproven dumbing of the Neanderthals is an example of the same cultural preconception.
- The ensuing storm caused the department to lower the bar—amid protests that this was dumbing the test down—so that only 80 percent of urban kids would fail.