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Weird

adjective

Suggesting the operation of supernatural influences. Synonyms: eldritch, uncanny, unearthly. "The three weird sisters" , "Stumps...had uncanny shapes as of monstrous creatures" , "An unearthly light" , "He could hear the unearthly scream of some curlew piercing the din"

Strikingly odd or unusual.

noun

Fate personified; any one of the three Weird Sisters. Synonym: Wyrd.

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— Unwritten Literature of Hawaii - The Sacred Songs of the Hula • Nathaniel Bright Emerson

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— The Fourth Dimensional Reaches of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition • Cora Lenore Williams

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