plural weirdos
: a person who is extraordinarily strange or eccentric
Synonyms of weirdo
Examples of weirdo in a Sentence
Noun
one of those weirdos that the rest of the town always seemed to be talking about
Adjective
he saw some weirdo lights in the sky and immediately concluded that it had to be a UFO
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Naomi Fry, New Yorker, 6 Dec. 2025
For every new cohort of clubby punch-line comedians and truth-telling trauma explorers, somewhere a weirdo rises.
—Kathryn Vanarendonk, Vulture, 3 Dec. 2025
Emily Temple, Literary Hub, 26 Nov. 2025
Bolder clothes got her through the door at the legendary Blitz club and into its petri dish of weirdo creatives, including BodyMap’s Stevie Stewart, Stephen Jones, and Leigh Bowery.
—Anna Cafolla, Vogue, 26 Nov. 2025
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Noun
These startling human features belong to a round gray moon, whose cratered surface recalls the acne-scarred cheeks of, say, a fortyish weirdo who still lives with his elderly mother.
—Naomi Fry, New Yorker, 6 Dec. 2025
For every new cohort of clubby punch-line comedians and truth-telling trauma explorers, somewhere a weirdo rises.
—Kathryn Vanarendonk, Vulture, 3 Dec. 2025
Adjective
The fairy tale weirdo in me has no choice but to love the wolf with wolves for hands and feet.
—Emily Temple, Literary Hub, 26 Nov. 2025
Bolder clothes got her through the door at the legendary Blitz club and into its petri dish of weirdo creatives, including BodyMap’s Stevie Stewart, Stephen Jones, and Leigh Bowery.
—Anna Cafolla, Vogue, 26 Nov. 2025
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“Weirdo.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/weirdo. Accessed 16 Dec. 2025.
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