bizarre
adjectivenouncommon in dialogue
- //bɪˈzɑː(ɹ)//
- //bəˈzɑː(ɹ)//
- //bɪˈzɑɹ//
- //bəˈzɑɹ//
Strangely unconventional; highly unusual and different from common experience, often in an extravagant, fantastic, and/or conspicuous way.
adjective
- 1
Strangely unconventional; highly unusual and different from common experience, often in an extravagant, fantastic, and/or conspicuous way.
That was a bizarre adventure!
[…]no, the abjectly unheroic nature of the death,—that was the sting,—that and the bizarre wording of the resulting obituary: “Shot with a rock, on a raft.”
Strange as it all was, bizarre as it may hereafter seem even to us who felt its potent influence at the time, it comforted us much; and the silence, which showed Mrs. Harker’s coming relapse from her freedom of soul, did not seem so full of despair to any of us as we had dreaded.
[…] she had brass leggings to the knee, brass wire gauntlets to the elbow, a crimson spot on her tawny cheek, innumerable necklaces of glass beads on her neck; bizarre things, charms, gifts of witch-men, that hung about her, glittered and trembled at every step.
Etymology
Borrowed from French bizarre (“odd, peculiar, bizarre”, formerly “headlong, angry”), then either from Italian bizzarro (“weird, eccentric, frisky”) or, less likely, from Basque bizar (literally “beard”, from the notion that bearded Spanish soldiers made a strange impression on the French).
noun
- 1
Any of several types of flower with stripes of various colours. A carnation having stripes of two distinct colours on the white petals.
- 2
Any of several types of flower with stripes of various colours. A tulip with a certain pattern of various colored stripes.
Forms
- plural
- bizarres
- comparative
- more bizarre, bizarrer
- superlative
- most bizarre, bizarrest
bizarre · Strangely unconventional; highly unusual and different from common experience, often in an extravagant, fantastic, and/or conspicuous way.
BJ · Billy Jean, Bobby Joe or another name with those initials,…blabbering · Foolish or incoherent talk; blather; babble.black · Absorbing all light and reflecting none; dark and hueless.