Meaning of BIZARRE
| Pronunciation: | | bi'zâr
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| | Definition: | | [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"; "the outlandish clothes of teenagers"; "outre and affected stage antics" |
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| | Synonyms: | | eccentric, flaky, freakish, freaky, outlandish, outre, unconventional |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Bi*zarre"\, a. [F. bizarre odd, fr. Sp. bizarro
gallant, brave, liberal, prob. of Basque origin; cf. Basque
bizarra beard, whence the meaning manly, brave.]
Odd in manner or appearance; fantastic; whimsical;
extravagant; grotesque. --C. Kingsley.
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| | Related Terms: | | 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, Gothic, 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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