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WEIRDO
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Dictionary entry overview: What does weirdo mean?
• WEIRDO (noun)
The noun WEIRDO has 2 senses:
1. someone unpleasantly strange or eccentric
2. someone deranged and possibly dangerous
Familiarity information: WEIRDO used as a noun is rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Someone unpleasantly strange or eccentric
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
creep; spook; weirdie; weirdo; weirdy
Hypernyms ("weirdo" is a kind of...):
disagreeable person; unpleasant person (a person who is not pleasant or agreeable)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Someone deranged and possibly dangerous
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
crazy; looney; loony; nutcase; weirdo
Hypernyms ("weirdo" is a kind of...):
lunatic; madman; maniac (an insane person)
Domain usage:
colloquialism (a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech)
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