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DIRECTORY OF OBSCURITY
The Old, Rare & Unusual
OBSCURE | WEIRD | OBSOLETE
Obscurity WordMap
WORD LISTS SPECIAL FEATURES WORDS FROM OTHER CATEGORIES
- Obscure Words from Language Category
- Nonsense ~ Gibberish ~ Grandiloquent ~ Oddities ~ Whimsical ~ Quirky ~ Bizarre ~ Sensory ~ Boring ~ Hyphenated
WEIRD AND WACKY
OBSCURITY OF THE NORM
obscure words for the ordinary & normal
THE GREAT RESURRECTION
bringing the best obsolete words back
DIRECTORY OF WORDS
SOME WEIRD PEOPLE
- The Word of the People - People Words
- A Woman’s Touch - Female Words
- Scowl of a Scoundrel - Trickster Words
- A Call for Action - Action Words
- Grey’s Anatomy - Human Body Words
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- A Bumbling Confusion - Chaos Words
- Weird and Wacky Words - Strange Words
- X Marks the Spot - Letter X Words
- Jack of all Trades - Job Words
- A Box of Strange Things - Object Words
- Craving a Tasty Treat - Edible Words
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ETYMOLOGY OF WEIRD
Old English wyrd meaning ‘destiny’, of Germanic origin and formed from the verb weorþan, meaning "to come to pass, to become". The term developed into the modern English adjective weird. The adjective (late Middle English) originally meant ‘having the power to control destiny’, and was used especially in the Weird Sisters, originally referring to the Fates (three goddesses who spun, measured, and cut the thread of life.) and later the witches in Shakespeare's Macbeth. They were portrayed as odd or frightening in appearance and especially in 18th and 19th century productions of it. This led to the adjectival meaning "odd-looking, uncanny" (1815); "odd, strange, disturbingly different" (1820) and the sense ‘unearthly’ (early 19th century). The most common modern meaning of weird - "odd, strange" - is first attested in 1815, originally with a connotation of the supernatural or portentous (especially in the collocation weird and wonderful), but by the early 20th century increasingly applied to everyday situations.
SYNONYMS FOR WEIRD
bizarre, bizarro, cranky, crazy, curious, eccentric, erratic, far-out, funky, funny, kinky, kooky (also kookie), odd, off-kilter, off-the-wall, offbeat, out-of-the-way, outlandish, outré, peculiar, quaint, queer, queerish, quirky, remarkable, rum [British], screwy, spaced-out, strange, wacky (also whacky), way-out, weirdo, wild
Old English wyrd meaning ‘destiny’, of Germanic origin and formed from the verb weorþan, meaning "to come to pass, to become". The term developed into the modern English adjective weird. The adjective (late Middle English) originally meant ‘having the power to control destiny’, and was used especially in the Weird Sisters, originally referring to the Fates (three goddesses who spun, measured, and cut the thread of life.) and later the witches in Shakespeare's Macbeth. They were portrayed as odd or frightening in appearance and especially in 18th and 19th century productions of it. This led to the adjectival meaning "odd-looking, uncanny" (1815); "odd, strange, disturbingly different" (1820) and the sense ‘unearthly’ (early 19th century). The most common modern meaning of weird - "odd, strange" - is first attested in 1815, originally with a connotation of the supernatural or portentous (especially in the collocation weird and wonderful), but by the early 20th century increasingly applied to everyday situations.
SYNONYMS FOR WEIRD
bizarre, bizarro, cranky, crazy, curious, eccentric, erratic, far-out, funky, funny, kinky, kooky (also kookie), odd, off-kilter, off-the-wall, offbeat, out-of-the-way, outlandish, outré, peculiar, quaint, queer, queerish, quirky, remarkable, rum [British], screwy, spaced-out, strange, wacky (also whacky), way-out, weirdo, wild
The Old, Rare & Unusual
OBSCURE | WEIRD | OBSOLETE
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