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to weird out

to weird out

12 8.4
Make someone feel strange or uncomfortable
  • phrasal verb
  • Informal
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  • I was really weirded out when I found out the strange noise was just the wind.
  • get weirded out
  • totally weirded out
  • kind of weirded out

And he was like, so weirded out by it that he never came back to that dentist.

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Examples

  • I get really weirded out by that too!

    Blog text (20)

  • We totally get why she looks so weirded out all the time.

    Blog text (2)

  • Like, I would be really weirded out by this.

  • Wait, no one else is weirded out by this?

    Pixels (2015)

  • Why would you be weirded out?

    Assassination Nation (2018)

  • Are you weirded out by the ride?

    Final Destination 3 (2006)

  • The first time l saw her work, l was a little weirded out.

    Boogie Woogie (2010)

  • And he was like, so weirded out by it that he never came back to that dentist.

    H3 Podcast

  • I remember being really weirded out when I figured out that most music on the radio counts.

    Blog text (3)

  • He's really weirded out by her aggressiveness.

    Fiction book (2000)

Synonyms

to disconcert
vsto weird out
7 7.1

To make someone feel uncomfortable or embarrassed

is more about feeling strange or odd rather than social embarrassment
to unsettle
vsto weird out
7 4.9

To make someone feel worried or uneasy

is milder and focuses on an odd uneasy feeling rather than lasting insecurity
to discomfort
vsto weird out
1 4.3

To make someone feel uneasy or anxious

is more about causing a strange or odd feeling rather than physical unease
to discomfit
vsto weird out
  • Formal
1 8.4

To make someone feel uncomfortable, confused, or embarrassed

is gentler meaning strange or uncomfortable but not losing composure
to do someone's head in
vsto weird out
  • UK
1 9.8

To make someone feel very annoyed or upset

is milder producing simple strange or uneasy feelings rather than severe distress

Antonyms

to comfort
172 1.0

To make someone feel less upset or in pain

to reassure
163 3.4

To make someone feel less worried and more confident

How Uncomfortable

to freak out
  • Informal
430 6.8
to weird out
  • Informal
12 8.4
to unnerve
20 6.3
to unsettle
7 4.9
to bother
∞ 1.0

Surface Forms

weird out infinitive
weirded out past
weirded out past participle
weirding out present participle
weirds out third person singular

Morphology

weird + out

The meaning 'to make someone feel strange or uncomfortable' is directly related to the adjective 'weird' (strange), but the contribution of the particle 'out' and the conversion of an adjective into a causative verb (to weird someone out) relies on knowledge of English phrasal-verb/particle patterns. This formation is partially compositional and thus somewhat inferable, but a B1 learner who only knows the literal constituents may not reliably predict the verb meaning without prior exposure.

Etymology

The phrasal verb weird out comes from a simple image: something makes a person feel weird and pushes them out of feeling normal. So it means 'to make someone feel strange or uncomfortable'.