WEIRDLY Synonyms: 27 Similar and Opposite Words

weirdly

adverb

Definition of weirdly

as in strangely

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Recent Examples of weirdly Loafers can sometimes feel weirdly stiff straight out of the box, but this popular Uptown pair skips that painful break-in phase. — Chaise Sanders, Travel + Leisure, 25 May 2026 The shifter is tiny and weirdly unsatisfying for a car with this much bratty energy. — Josh Max, Forbes.com, 19 June 2026 And what better way to get used to the pressure that comes with playing for the Leafs than by tackling one of the most weirdly high-pressure scenarios in all of sports? — Matt Reigle Outkick, FOXNews.com, 28 June 2026 Some particularly outrageous one-liners about race snuck into the film’s final cut, although much of its dicier material comes off as weirdly effortful instead of provocative or reckless. — Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 4 June 2026 See All Example Sentences for weirdly

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Commissioned by Mattel as a blatant weekly half-hour commercial for its popular toy line, the show pits He-Man and his heroic chums against the evil (but strangely inept) Skeletor in a battle for control of Castle Grayskull.

— Richard Edwards, Space.com, 5 July 2026
Court documents say witnesses noticed Lopez acting strangely before the attack.

— Jasmine Baehr, FOXNews.com, 3 July 2026

Definition of strangely

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And how spending time in the unpredictable, immensely powerful and ever-changing sea is so oddly grounding.

— Heather Hiett, Mercury News, 6 July 2026
Bobby Bonilla, who played for the Orioles for one and a half seasons during his 15-year career, was, oddly enough, at the Baltimore Orioles game on Wednesday, the day he is owed money.

— Adam Thompson, CBS News, 2 July 2026

Definition of oddly

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This peculiarly stubborn barrier to the franchise held strong until Puerto Rican citizens took it to court, finally succeeding 60 years ago today, June 13, 1966.

— Robert Polner, New York Daily News, 13 June 2026
But his mouth was open and drooped peculiarly to one side, and his skin was sucked into his skeleton like a vacuum storage bag.

— Amanda Peet, New Yorker, 21 Mar. 2026

Definition of peculiarly

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The Tetra, from Analog Machine Works, features an unusually long tubular space frame with a pair of opposite-facing tetrahedrons in its interconnected structure.

— New Atlas, New Atlas, 7 July 2026
By Wednesday evening, senior White House officials had decided to actively support the effort to contest the suspension, which many soccer analysts viewed as an unusually harsh punishment.

— Barnini Chakraborty, The Washington Examiner, 6 July 2026

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