Added 9 October 2026
bizarre
/bɪˈzɑː(ɹ)/ adjective
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Strangely unconventional; highly unusual and different from common experience, often in an extravagant, fantastic, and/or conspicuous way.
That was a bizarre adventure!
noun
- Any of several types of flower with stripes of various colours. A carnation having stripes of two distinct colours on the white petals. A tulip with a certain pattern of various colored stripes.
- A carnation having stripes of two distinct colours on the white petals.
- A tulip with a certain pattern of various colored stripes.
Origin
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).
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