{
    "term": "weird",
    "partOfSpeech": "adjective",
    "ox5000": true,
    "cefr": "b2",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "very strange or unusual and difficult to explain",
            "cefr": "b2",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "I had a really weird dream last night."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She's a really weird girl."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He's got some weird ideas."
                },
                {
                    "text": "It's really weird seeing yourself on television."
                },
                {
                    "text": "the **weird and wonderful** creatures that live beneath the sea"
                },
                {
                    "text": "I started to feel really weird."
                },
                {
                    "text": "It all sounds a bit weird to me."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Some of their clothes were really weird and wonderful."
                },
                {
                    "text": "It's a weird and wonderful island full of weird and wonderful things to do."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She's a very weird girl."
                }
            ],
            "synonyms": "strange",
            "collocations": {
                "verbs": ["be", "feel", "seem"],
                "adverb": ["extremely", "fairly", "very"],
                "phrases": ["weird and wonderful"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "strange in a mysterious and frightening way",
            "cefr": "b2",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "She began to make weird inhuman sounds."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "used to show that ‘funny’ is being used with the meaning of ‘strange’",
            "labels": "(informal)",
            "examples": []
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/wɪəd/",
                "audio": "we/weird/weird__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/wɪrd/",
                "audio": "we/weird/weird__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "Old English wyrd ‘destiny’, of Germanic origin. The adjective (late Middle English) originally meant ‘having the power to control destiny’, and was used especially in the Weird Sisters, originally referring to the Fates, later the witches in Shakespeare's Macbeth; the latter use gave rise to the sense ‘unearthly’ (early 19th cent.)."
}