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| # Having [[supernatural]] or [[preternatural]] [[power]]. | # Having [[supernatural]] or [[preternatural]] [[power]]. | ||
| # Having an unusually [[strange]] character or behaviour. | # Having an unusually [[strange]] character or behaviour. | ||
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| '''Weird''' may refer to: | '''Weird''' may refer to: | ||
| - | *[[Weird (comics)]], a fictional DC Comics character | ||
| - | *[[Weird (Hanson song)|"Weird" (Hanson song)]], a song written and performed by the American pop rock band Hanson | ||
| *[["Weird Al" Yankovic]] (born 1959), American musician and parodist | *[["Weird Al" Yankovic]] (born 1959), American musician and parodist | ||
| *[[Weird fiction]], speculative literature written in the late 19th and early 20th century | *[[Weird fiction]], speculative literature written in the late 19th and early 20th century | ||
| - | *[[Weird number]], a natural number that is abundant but not semiperfect | + | *[[Weird Tales]], magazine |
| *''[[The Weird]]'', a 2012 anthology of weird fiction | *''[[The Weird]]'', a 2012 anthology of weird fiction | ||
| - | *"Weird", a song from Hilary Duff's ''[[Hilary Duff (album)|Hilary Duff]]'' | + | ==Etymology== |
| - | *a acronym for [[Westernized]] [[Educated]] [[Industrialized]] [[Rich (disambiguation)|Rich]] and [[Democratized]] | + | From Old English ''[[wyrd]]'' ("that which happens, fate, chance, fortune, destiny, Fate, the Fates, Providence, event, phenomenon, transaction, fact, deed"). |
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| ==See also== | ==See also== | ||
| *[[New Weird America]], a subgenre of psychedelic folk music of the mid-late 2000s | *[[New Weird America]], a subgenre of psychedelic folk music of the mid-late 2000s | ||
| - | *[[Weirdo (disambiguation)]] | + | *[[Weirdo]] |
| *[[Wyrd]], an Anglo-Saxon concept of fate | *[[Wyrd]], an Anglo-Saxon concept of fate | ||
| == See also (2) == | == See also (2) == | ||
| *"[[odd]], [[uncanny]]", see [[grotesque]], [[confusion]], [[freak]], [[surprise]]. | *"[[odd]], [[uncanny]]", see [[grotesque]], [[confusion]], [[freak]], [[surprise]]. | ||
| + | *[[Weirdo (magazine)]] | ||
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- Having supernatural or preternatural power.
- Having an unusually strange character or behaviour.
- Deviating from the normal; bizarre.
Weird may refer to:
- "Weird Al" Yankovic (born 1959), American musician and parodist
- Weird fiction, speculative literature written in the late 19th and early 20th century
- Weird Tales, magazine
- The Weird, a 2012 anthology of weird fiction
Etymology
From Old English wyrd ("that which happens, fate, chance, fortune, destiny, Fate, the Fates, Providence, event, phenomenon, transaction, fact, deed").
See also
- New Weird America, a subgenre of psychedelic folk music of the mid-late 2000s
- Weirdo
- Wyrd, an Anglo-Saxon concept of fate
See also (2)
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