weirder

ADJECTIVE

odd, bizarre

Synonyms

STRONGEST

awful creepy curious eccentric eerie freaky funky ghastly haunting horrific kooky magical mysterious outlandish peculiar spooky strange supernatural unnatural

STRONG

grotesque occult oddball secret singular

WEAK

awe-inspiring dreadful far-out fearful flaky ghostly inscrutable kinky ominous preternatural supernal uncanny uncouth unearthly

Antonyms

STRONGEST

boring common dull familiar genuine good natural normal ordinary plain pleasant pleasing real regular standard usual

STRONG

known

Example Sentences

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weirder

Then, things got weirder: Oil prices retreated to pre-conflict levels in June, but Treasury yields fell only a little.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026

“Everything we do that’s perceived as absurd always starts from a real place of: ‘Something like this exists, and we’re going to expand upon it and go deeper and weirder with it.’

From Slate ● Jul. 12, 2026

There is also a chicken character, but it doesn’t appear much more real than its animated counterpart—just weirder, like something that escaped from an underground lab at Perdue.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 2026

It’s almost like the weirder I am, the more he loves me.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 18, 2026

He didn’t want to be the first to pull away, but was he making things weirder for her?

From "When Dimple Met Rishi" by Sandhya Menon

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