adj
Meaning 1
Weird.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
weirdo
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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UK: /ˈwɪə.dəʊ/
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US: /ˈwɪəɹ.doʊ/
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rhymes with -ɪə(ɹ)dəʊ
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CMU ARPABET: W IH1 R D OW0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
noun
Meaning 2
A strange, odd, eccentric person.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: derogatory, informal
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noun
Meaning 3
An insane, possibly dangerous person.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: derogatory, informal
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noun
Meaning 4
A superfan of American science-fiction author Andy Weir.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: slang
Topics: lifestyle
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noun
Meaning 5
someone deranged and possibly dangerous
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: crazy, loony, looney, nutcase
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: lunatic, madman, maniac
noun
Meaning 6
someone unpleasantly strange or eccentric
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: creep, weirdie, weirdy, spook
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: unpleasant person, disagreeable person
History
Etymology
From weird + -o (“person with characteristic”). First attested in the early 1950s, in American English. The similar word weirdie (“odd, unconventional person”) is attested from earlier, in 1887; in Scottish English.
Blend of Weir + weirdo
Across languages
Translations
34 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bulgarian: чудак (čudak) — strange person
- Bulgarian: особняк (osobnjak) — strange person
- Chinese Cantonese: 騎呢怪 /骑呢怪 (ke4 le4 gwaai3) — strange person
- Chinese Mandarin: 怪人 (guàirén) — strange person
- Czech: podivín — strange person
- Finnish: härö — strange person
- French: hurluberlu — strange person
- French: loufoque — strange person
- French: zarbi — strange person
- German: Exzentriker — strange person
- German: Spinner — strange person
- Greek: παράξενος (paráxenos) — strange person
- Greek: ανώμαλος (anómalos) — strange person
- Hungarian: különc — strange person
- Icelandic: furðufugl — strange person
- Ingrian: cudakka — strange person
- Italian: strambo — strange person
- Japanese: 変な人 (hen na hito) — strange person
- Northern Kurdish: eletewş — strange person
- Macedonian: чу́дак (čúdak) — strange person
- Māori: porowairangi — strange person
- Norwegian Bokmål: raring — strange person
- Polish: dziwak — strange person
- Polish: cudak — strange person
- Portuguese: esquisito — strange person
- Portuguese: esquisitoide — strange person
- Russian: чуда́к (čudák) — strange person
- Scottish Gaelic: baoghal — strange person
- Serbo-Croatian: чудак — strange person
- Serbo-Croatian: čudak — strange person
- Spanish: excéntrico — strange person
- Spanish: bicho raro — strange person
- Spanish: rarito — strange person
- Spanish: anormal — strange person
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