Weird words

We are all a little weird and life's a little weird, and when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall in mutual weirdness and call it love."

— Dr. Seuss

 

 

Weird

weird

wird/

adjective

adjective: weird; comparative adjective: weirder; superlative adjective: weirdest

1. 1.

   suggesting something supernatural; uncanny.

   "the weird crying of a seal"

   synonyms:

   uncanny, eerie, unnatural, supernatural, unearthly, otherworldly, ghostly, mysterious, strange, abnormal, unusual; More eldritch; informalcreepy, spooky, freaky "weird apparitions"

   antonyms:

   normal

   • informal

     very strange; bizarre.

     "a weird coincidence"

     synonyms:

     bizarre, quirky, outlandish, eccentric, unconventional, unorthodox, idiosyncratic, surreal, crazy, peculiar, odd, strange, queer, freakish, zany, madcap, outré; More informalbizarro, wacky, freaky, way-out, offbeat, off the wall, wacko "a weird sense of humor"

     antonyms:

     conventional

   • archaic

     connected with fate.

noun

Scottisharchaic

noun: weird; plural noun: weirds

1. 1.

   a person's destiny.

verb

North Americaninformal

verb: weird; 3rd person present: weirds; past tense: weirded; past participle: weirded; gerund or present participle: weirding

1. 1.

   induce a sense of disbelief or alienation in someone.

 

While wandering this morning I found Dr. Seuss' quote about weird on the homepage where a very interesting poem was responding to this visual prompt ...

 

Tess Kindaid's Magazine 247

Weird is one of those exceptions to the rules. Like any art form there are rules but they are meant to be broken, bent, unpinned and assembled differently.

 

Weird is one of those words that is the exceptions to the rules in spelling : " i before e, except after c.

 

Weird words are an art form.

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Thank you  Chris McQueeney for the poem, and Tess Kinkaid at Magpie Tales for the visual prompt.