fate personified; any one of the three Weird Sisters

[ Syn: wyrd , weird ]

suggesting the operation of supernatural influences; an eldritch screech; the three weird sisters; stumps...had uncanny shapes as of monstrous creatures- John Galsworthy; an unearthly light; he could hear the unearthly scream of some curlew piercing the din- Henry Kingsley

[ Syn: eldritch , uncanny , unearthly ]

strikingly odd or unusual; some trick of the moonlight; some weird effect of shadow- Bram Stoker