The difference between Uncanny and Weird
When used as nouns, uncanny means something that is simultaneously familiar and strange, typically leading to feelings of discomfort, whereas weird means fate.
When used as adjectives, uncanny means strange, and mysteriously unsettling (as if supernatural), whereas weird means having an unusually strange character or behaviour.
Weird is also verb with the meaning: to destine.
check bellow for the other definitions of Uncanny and Weird
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Uncanny as an adjective:
Strange, and mysteriously unsettling (as if supernatural); weird.
Examples:
"He bore an uncanny resemblance to the dead sailor."
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Uncanny as an adjective (UK, _, dialectal):
Careless.
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Uncanny as a noun (psychology, psychoanalysis, Freud):
Something that is simultaneously familiar and strange, typically leading to feelings of discomfort; .
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Weird as an adjective:
Having an unusually strange character or behaviour.
Examples:
"There are lots of weird people in this place."
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Weird as an adjective:
Deviating from the normal; bizarre.
Examples:
"It was quite weird to bump into all my ex-girlfriends on the same day."
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Weird as an adjective (archaic):
Of or pertaining to the Fates.
Examples:
"maintenance line Can we find and add a quotation to this entry?"
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Weird as an adjective (archaic):
Connected with fate or destiny; able to influence fate.
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Weird as an adjective (archaic):
Of or pertaining to witches or witchcraft; supernatural; unearthly; suggestive of witches, witchcraft, or unearthliness; wild; uncanny.
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Weird as an adjective (archaic):
Having supernatural or preternatural power.
Examples:
"There was a weird light shining above the hill."
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Weird as a noun (archaic):
Fate; destiny; luck.
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Weird as a noun:
A prediction.
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Weird as a noun (obsolete, Scotland):
A spell or charm.
Examples:
"rfquotek Sir Walter Scott"
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Weird as a noun:
That which comes to pass; a fact.
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Weird as a noun (archaic, in the plural):
The Fates (personified).
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Weird as a verb (transitive):
To destine; doom; change by witchcraft or sorcery.
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Weird as a verb (transitive):
To warn solemnly; adjure.