Meaning & use
weird
Strange or unusual in a way that is surprising or hard to explain.
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There was a weird smell coming from the basement that no one could identify.
It felt weird returning to the empty classroom after graduation.
A note on using this word
Weird is informal and works in almost any casual sentence, while uncanny or bizarre sound more literary.
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