AskDefine | Define bizarre

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bizarre adj : conspicuously or grossly unconventional or unusual; "restaurants of bizarre design--one like a hat, another like a rabbit"; "famed for his eccentric spelling"; "a freakish combination of styles"; "his off-the-wall antics"; "the outlandish clothes of teenagers"; "outre and affected stage antics" [syn: eccentric, freakish, freaky, flaky, off-the-wall, outlandish, outre]

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English

Pronunciation

Etymology

etyl fr bizarre, from etyl eu bizar.

Adjective

  1. strangely unconventional in style or appearance, from the French bizarre.

Translations

strangely unconventional

French

Pronunciation

Etymology

From bizar.

Adjective

  1. bizarre, odd
    Comme c'est bizarre !
  2. peculiar, quaint

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Extensive Definition

Bizarre may refer to:

See also

bizarre in French: Bizarre

Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words

Gothic, absurd, amusing, antic, awe-inspiring, awesome, awful, awing, baroque, beyond belief, brain-born, cockamamie, crazy, curious, deformed, deviant, dream-built, droll, eccentric, eerie, erratic, extravagant, fanciful, fancy-born, fancy-built, fancy-woven, fantasque, fantastic, florid, foolish, freak, freakish, funny, grotesque, high-flown, hilarious, humorous, incongruous, incredible, irregular, kinky, laughable, ludicrous, maggoty, malformed, misbegotten, misshapen, monstrous, mysterious, nonconforming, nonconformist, nonsensical, notional, numinous, odd, oddball, offbeat, outlandish, outrageous, outre, peculiar, poppycockish, preposterous, priceless, quaint, queer, quizzical, rich, ridiculous, risible, rococo, screaming, singular, strange, teratogenic, teratoid, uncanny, unconventional, unusual, weird, whimsical, wild, witty
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