bizarre
//bɪˈzɑː(ɹ)//
Forms
- Comparative
- more bizarre
- Superlative
- most bizarre
- Plural
- bizarres
Definitions
1.Strangely unconventional; highly unusual and different from common experience, often in an extravagant, fantastic, and/or conspicuous way.
- West Brom enjoyed more possession as the half progressed and were handed a penalty of their own in the 21st minute in bizarre circumstances.
- I confess that I had not up to now taken a very serious view of the case, which had seemed to me rather grotesque and bizarre than dangerous.
- That was a bizarre adventure!
1.Any of several types of flower with stripes of various colours.
Frequency
Overall
Rare· #5050
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Rare
- General reading & writing
- Rare
- Academic
- Rare
- Literature
- Rare
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”