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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Theater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 1 May 2026
André 3000, largely thanks to experiments in dress, is often considered the weirdo wild card, and Big Boi the straight man.
—New York Times, 28 Apr. 2026
Marc Masters, Pitchfork, 24 Apr. 2026
Give me this kind of weirdo interpretation over yet-another-stuffy-period-piece any day!
—Drew Broussard, Literary Hub, 13 Apr. 2026
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Noun
Arden isn’t afraid to let weirdos be weirdos in a musical that has a healthy suspicion of surface perfection.
—Theater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 1 May 2026
André 3000, largely thanks to experiments in dress, is often considered the weirdo wild card, and Big Boi the straight man.
—New York Times, 28 Apr. 2026
Adjective
He’s veered from outsider rants as Uncle Jim to cryptic lo-fi acoustic guitar, creepy outsider folk, masterful one-man weirdo pop, and stunning, reverent covers of songs by Tom T. Hall, Kris Kristofferson, Bob Dylan, and more.
—Marc Masters, Pitchfork, 24 Apr. 2026
Give me this kind of weirdo interpretation over yet-another-stuffy-period-piece any day!
—Drew Broussard, Literary Hub, 13 Apr. 2026
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“Weirdo.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/weirdo. Accessed 11 May. 2026.
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