Weird derives from the Anglo-Saxon word Wyrd, meaning fate or destiny. In modern English it has acquired the meaning of “strange or uncanny”. It may also refer to:

Places

* Weird Lake, a lake in Minnesota, U.S.

People

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

Art, entertainment, and media

Literature

* ''Weird US (book series), Weird US'', a series of travel guides * ''The Weird'', a 2012 anthology of weird fiction * Weird fiction, speculative literature written in the late 19th and early 20th century

Music

* Weird (Hanson song), "Weird" (Hanson song), 1998 * "Weird", a song from Hilary Duff's album ''Hilary Duff (album), Hilary Duff'' * ''Weird!'', a 2020 album by Yungblud * New Weird America, a subgenre of psychedelic folk music of the mid-late 2000s

Other art, entertainment, and media

* Weird (comics), 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, a natural number that is abundant but not semiperfect