Weird
- noun
- /wɪrd/
- Archaic
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Weird
- The Strange Dr. Weird began his 15-minute program on the Mutual Radio Network from 1944-45 with the same morbid conviviality: "Good evening."
- the New Weird
And then Sailor on the Seas of Fate and the Weird of the White Wolf.
- And then Sailor on the Seas of Fate and the Weird of the White Wolf.
Examples
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The universe described by the fiction of the weird is instructive not only for this longer literary tradition, but also for the kinds of contemporary thinking that explore its premises, and both are beginning to demand a new narrative vocabulary.
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An expanded sense of what might constitute weird writing beyond the Weird Tales writers or the boundaries of the New Weird offers, in turn, an expanded set of literary resources through which to think the nonhuman and to think beyond some of the paradoxes that thought presents.
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And then Sailor on the Seas of Fate and the Weird of the White Wolf.
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The notion of trying to create a category of The Weird seems a bit meretricious, but still, a
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The smell of your weird is actually affecting my vocal cords, so I'm gonna need you to scoot.
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More instructive in this description of the New Weird is the embedded ambivalence towards its literary precursors.
Academic text (2016) -
The "New Weird" is a genre category that has been adopted by a group of writers of post-cyberpunk speculative fiction and what they call "transgressive horror." 11
Academic text (2016) -
♪ Lonnie, Lonnie Weird and scrawny ♪ ♪ Has bad dreams, so cries to Mommy ♪
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The legacy of the old weird appears not only in a capacious view of New Weird fiction, but also in the indelibly literary terms and strategies to which theorists of the nonhuman are drawn.
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In ancient times, people believed that the weird determined the fate of individuals.
Synonyms
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One of three women who decide people's future in old stories
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A force like fate in old Norse and English stories that seems to control people's lives
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Etymology
Weird comes from the old English wyrd, which meant 'fate' or 'what will happen'. In old stories a Weird was one of the women who decided people's future, like the 'Weird Sisters' in Macbeth, so the word meant someone who controlled 'fate'.