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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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==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]] | ||
*[[Wyrd]], an Anglo-Saxon concept of fate | *[[Wyrd]], an Anglo-Saxon concept of fate | ||
+ | *[[W.E.I.R.D.]], acronym, describes populations that are Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, and Democratic | ||
== See also (2) == | == See also (2) == | ||
*"[[odd]], [[uncanny]]", see [[grotesque]], [[confusion]], [[freak]], [[surprise]]. | *"[[odd]], [[uncanny]]", see [[grotesque]], [[confusion]], [[freak]], [[surprise]]. | ||
- | *[[Weirdo (magazine)]] | + | *[[Weirdo (magazine)]], a magazine sized comics anthology created by Robert Crumb |
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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
- Wyrd, an Anglo-Saxon concept of fate
- W.E.I.R.D., acronym, describes populations that are Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, and Democratic
See also (2)
- "odd, uncanny", see grotesque, confusion, freak, surprise.
- Weirdo (magazine), a magazine sized comics anthology created by Robert Crumb
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