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weirdly

adv
/ˈwɪə(ɹ)dli/

Etymology

From weird + -ly.

  1. borrowed from weird
  2. derived from *wert-✻
  3. derived from *wurdiz✻
  4. derived from *wurdi✻
  5. derived from wyrd
  6. derived from werde
  7. suffixed as weirdly — “weird + -ly”

Definitions

  1. In a weird manner.

    • The teacher suspected he was on drugs because he was behaving weirdly.
    • She wore a necklace strung with weirdly-shaped pearls.
    • The cracking sound, he explained, as far as I, a non-plumber, could understand, was the sound of the overworked, undermaintained and weirdly installed heating unit’s core rupturing and spilling water into the basement.

  2. Contrary to expectations.

    • Weirdly, Alice showed up 10 minutes early. She was usually late for everything.
    • The roughness of the wool was weirdly pleasant.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA