as in weird
different from the ordinary in a way that causes curiosity or suspicion
he saw some weirdo lights in the sky and immediately concluded that it had to be a UFO
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as in eccentric
a person of odd or whimsical habits
one of those weirdos that the rest of the town always seemed to be talking about
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Recent Examples of weirdo
Neil Paine, New York Times, 17 June 2025
Sweet, crisp, refreshing, a little sour, a little classic, doesn’t turn your tongue brown or give you weirdo breath.
—Elizabeth Logan, Glamour, 9 June 2025
Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 3 July 2025
But Gunn’s heart is with the weirdos who soldier on.
—Jake Coyle, Mercury News, 10 July 2025
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Adjective
There’s still room for weirdo teams like the 2011 Cardinals or 2021 Braves to make unlikely title bids, of course.
—Neil Paine, New York Times, 17 June 2025
Sweet, crisp, refreshing, a little sour, a little classic, doesn’t turn your tongue brown or give you weirdo breath.
—Elizabeth Logan, Glamour, 9 June 2025
Noun
Hoult has leading-man-handsome qualities, but he’s spent most of his career playing weirdos (The Order, Mad Max: Fury Road) and losers (The Menu, Juror #2) or some combination of the two (Superman).
—Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 3 July 2025
But Gunn’s heart is with the weirdos who soldier on.
—Jake Coyle, Mercury News, 10 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for weirdo
Adjective
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Because this is college football, there are lots of weird details.—
Jason Kirk,
New York Times,
1 Aug. 2025
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The Earrings of Madame de… is a weird morality tale—heavy on dramatic irony, and EXCELLENT dresses.—
Brittany Allen,
Literary Hub,
1 Aug. 2025
Noun
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Ra’s decades-long adherence to this personal mythology, along with his air of serene bemusement and his extravagant robes and headdresses, led to his popular image as a colorful eccentric.—
Ekow Eshun
July 11,
Literary Hub,
11 July 2025
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Other characters include outcasts, visionaries and eccentrics — all of whom live on the margins as unseen — a former priest, a girl trapped in working her family’s candy stand, a woman who learned preaching from her brother and is a caretaker for her dying housemate.—
Mary Ann Grossmann,
Twin Cities,
18 May 2025
Adjective
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After a couple of insulting caricatures, increasingly bizarre depictions of the Vice President started to spread through the internet, the trend becoming a competition to see who could create the most hideous, weird or original Vance.—
Dani Di Placido,
Forbes.com,
7 Aug. 2025
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These clever yet bizarre gadgets are both fun and oddly useful.—
Nora Colomer
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FOXNews.com,
6 Aug. 2025
Noun
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Gomez has appeared on two episodes of the show as her character, Alex Russo.—
Raechal Shewfelt,
EW.com,
8 Aug. 2025
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Everybody’s stories feel, to me, very satisfying for all three of our main characters.—
Emily Longeretta,
Variety,
7 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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The ever-shifting phases of Earth's moon present a wealth of targets for amateur astronomers to explore, ranging from magnificent craters and lunar seas to strange visual phenomena created as sunlight plays across the ancient surface, forming familiar shapes where none should be.—
Anthony Wood,
Space.com,
2 Aug. 2025
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No other high-profile footballer in the world has followed such a strange career arc, one that for at least two years has been leading him, circuitously but inexorably, to Saudi Arabia.—
Liam Twomey,
New York Times,
2 Aug. 2025
Noun
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His search takes him to a wacko cult in the desert run by a scamster, and that of course puts the sheriff in deadly danger.—
Sandra Dallas,
Denver Post,
6 July 2025
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You could also get lost attempting to read the splintered English and Hebrew letters running atop a stage festooned with wacko props and occult imagery.—
Andrew Lampert,
Artforum,
1 May 2025
Adjective
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When something bad happens, five seconds later, something funny in life happens.—
EW.com,
EW.com,
31 July 2025
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Chuck Lorre is back with yet another laugh-out-loud funny show to add to his TV universe.—
Carson Blackwelder,
People.com,
31 July 2025
Noun
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Season 3 kicks off in September with fights exploding and movie icon Samuel L. Jackson joining TV's oddball Manfredi crime family.—
Bryan Alexander,
USA Today,
30 July 2025
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First offered in a passenger car by Mercedes-Benz back in 1974, the five-cylinder engine has always been a bit of an automotive oddball.—
Bradley Iger,
ArsTechnica,
25 July 2025
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“Weirdo.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/weirdo. Accessed 15 Aug. 2025.
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