weirdo

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UK/ˈwɪə.dəʊ/US/ˈwiɹ.doʊ/

noun

A strange, odd, eccentric person.

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Meanings

weirdo1

nounweirdo (plural weirdoes or weirdos)

plural weirdoes · plural weirdos

  1. derogatoryinformalA strange, odd, eccentric person.

    Synonyms: strange person

  2. derogatoryinformalAn insane, possibly dangerous person.

    Synonyms: mad person

adjectiveweirdo (not comparable)
  1. not comparableWeird.

    What's going on in this weirdo town?

    2004, Intelligent Systems, translated by Nintendo of America, Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, Nintendo, GameCube, level/area: Twilight Town

Weirdo2

nounWeirdo (plural Weirdos)

plural Weirdos

  1. slanglifestyleA superfan of American science-fiction author Andy Weir.

Synonyms & antonyms

nounA strange, odd, eccentric person.

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strange person

nounAn insane, possibly dangerous person.

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mad person

More synonyms by meaning

nounsomeone unpleasantly strange or eccentric

Similar
creepweirdieweirdyspook
Broader
unpleasant persondisagreeable person

nounsomeone deranged and possibly dangerous

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Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Origin

weirdo · noun, adjective

From weird + -o (“person with characteristic”). First attested in the early 1950s, in American English. The similar word weirdie (“odd, unconventional person”) is attested from earlier, in 1887; in Scottish English.

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Weirdo · noun

Blend of Weir + weirdo

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Translations

Bulgarian чудак, особняк
  • чудак (čudak)strange person
  • особняк (osobnjak)strange person
Chinese Cantonese 騎呢怪 /骑呢怪
  • 騎呢怪 /骑呢怪 (ke⁴ le⁴ gwaai³)strange person
Chinese Mandarin 怪人
  • 怪人 (guàirén)strange person
Czech podivín
  • podivínstrange person
Finnish härö
  • häröstrange person
French hurluberlu, loufoque
  • hurluberlustrange person
  • loufoquestrange person
  • zarbistrange person
  • zinzinstrange person
German Exzentriker, Spinner
  • Exzentrikerstrange person
  • Spinnerstrange person
Greek παράξενος, ανώμαλος
  • παράξενος (paráxenos)strange person
  • ανώμαλος (anómalos)strange person
Hungarian különc
  • különcstrange person
Icelandic furðufugl
  • furðufuglstrange person
Italian strambo
  • strambostrange person
Japanese 変な人
  • 変な人 (hen na hito)strange person
Māori porowairangi
  • porowairangistrange person
Norwegian Bokmål raring
  • raringstrange person
Polish dziwak, cudak
  • dziwakstrange person
  • cudakstrange person
Portuguese esquisito, esquisitoide
  • esquisitostrange person
  • esquisitoidestrange person
Russian чуда́к
  • чуда́к (čudák)strange person
Scottish Gaelic baoghal
  • baoghalstrange person
Spanish excéntrico, bicho raro
  • excéntricostrange person
  • bicho rarostrange person
  • raritostrange person
  • anormalstrange person
  • subnormalstrange person

Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

wordie
Cite this entry
APA

weirdo. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/weirdo

MLA

“weirdo.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/weirdo. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “weirdo,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/weirdo.

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