Difference between Weird and Strange

What is the difference between Weird and Strange?

Weird as an adjective is having supernatural or preternatural power. while Strange as an adjective is not normal; odd, unusual, surprising, out of the ordinary.

Weird

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Having supernatural or preternatural power. Having an unusually strange character or behaviour. Deviating from the normal; bizarre. Of or pertaining to the Fates.

Part of speech: noun

Definition: fate or destiny The Fates.

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To make someone feel strange.

Example sentence: I can't stop moving. I'm like this weird insect. I can't sit still in real life.

Strange

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Not normal; odd, unusual, surprising, out of the ordinary.Unfamiliar, not yet part of one's experience.Having the quantum mechanical property of strangeness.

Example sentence: Every crag and gnarled tree and lonely valley has its own strange and graceful legend attached to it.

We hope you now know whether to use Weird or Strange in your sentence.

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