weirdly

adverb

weird·​ly ˈwird-lē How to pronounce weirdly (audio)
: in a weird manner : in a strange way
a weirdly familiar place
has been behaving weirdly lately
… in the pellucid air everything seemed weirdly beautiful …P. G. Wodehouse

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But to this point, Ellie has been written as weirdly unbothered most of the time about Joel’s death to the point where this mission has felt like a fun road trip with Dina outside of the occasionally running away from Clickers or WLF. Paul Tassi, Forbes.com, 12 May 2025 Characters face countless obstacles in the endlessly dangerous and hopeless landscape of The Last of Us—but imperfect hair, weirdly, is not one of them. Leah Prinzivalli, Allure, 11 May 2025 Anderson's screwball but meticulous aesthetic turns out to be a perfect fit with Roald Dahl, the idiosyncratic humor coming through in surprising ways and the narrative gaining some weirdly thrilling momentum. Kevin Jacobsen, EW.com, 10 May 2025 To clear Gomez’s name, Wednesday and Morticia dig up Gates’s corpse to get the full story on his death in what is a weirdly touching, and certainly dark, bonding moment. Marianne Eloise, Vulture, 10 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for weirdly

Word History

First Known Use

1837, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of weirdly was in 1837

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“Weirdly.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/weirdly. Accessed 21 May. 2025.

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