Weird derives from the Anglo-Saxon word

Wyrd Wyrd is a concept in Anglo-Saxon culture roughly corresponding to fate or personal destiny. The word is ancestral to Modern English '' weird'', whose meaning has drifted towards an adjectival use with a more general sense of "supernatural" or ...

, meaning fate or destiny. In modern English it has acquired the meaning of “strange or uncanny”. It may also refer to:

Places

Weird Lake Weird Lake is a natural lake in Cook County, Minnesota, United States. The lake has a surface area of . See also *List of lakes in Minnesota This is a list of lakes of Minnesota. Although promoted as the "Land of 10,000 Lakes", Minnesota has 11 ...

, a lake in Minnesota, U.S.

People

* "Weird Al" Yankovic (born 1959), American musician and parodist

Art, entertainment, and media

Literature

* '' Weird US'', a series of travel guides * ''

The Weird ''The Weird: A Compendium of Strange and Dark Stories'' is an anthology of weird fiction edited by Ann and Jeff VanderMeer. Published on 30 Oct 2011, it contains 110 short stories, novellas and short novels. At 1,152 pages in the hardcover editi ...

'', a 2012 anthology of weird fiction *

Weird fiction Weird fiction is a subgenre of speculative fiction originating in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Weird fiction either eschews or radically reinterprets ghosts, vampires, werewolves, and other traditional antagonists of supernatural horr ...

, speculative literature written in the late 19th and early 20th century

Music

* "Weird" (Hanson song), 1998 * "Weird", a song from Hilary Duff's album ''

Hilary Duff Hilary Erhard Duff (born September 28, 1987) is an American actress and singer. She is the recipient of various accolades, including seven Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards, four Teen Choice Awards and two Young Artist Awards. She began her acti ...

'' * ''

Weird! ''Weird!'' is the second studio album by English singer Yungblud, released on 4 December 2020 by Locomotion and Interscope Records. Originally scheduled for 13 November 2020, the album's release was delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. It is Y ...

'', a 2020 album by Yungblud *

New Weird America New Weird America is a 21st century style of music that primarily draws on psychedelic and folk music of the 1960s and 1970s. Etymology The term was coined by David Keenan in the issue 234 (August 2003) of ''The Wire'', following the Brattlebo ...

, a subgenre of psychedelic folk music of the mid-late 2000s

Other art, entertainment, and media

Weird (comics) ''The Weird'' is a fictional DC Comics character created by Jim Starlin and Bernie Wrightson. He first appeared in his own self-titled miniseries ''The Weird'' in 1988. Publication history The Weird appeared in an eponymous miniseries. The charac ...

, a fictional DC Comics character * '' Weird: The Al Yankovic Story'', a biographical comedy

Other uses

* WEIRD, an acronym for "Western, educated, industrialized, rich and democratic", cultural identifier of psychology test subjects *

Weird number In number theory, a weird number is a natural number that is abundant but not semiperfect. In other words, the sum of the proper divisors (divisors including 1 but not itself) of the number is greater than the number, but no subset of those divis ...

, a natural number that is abundant but not semiperfect