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bi·zarre 
[bi-zahr] Pronunciation Key
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[bi-zahr] Pronunciation Key –adjective
| markedly unusual in appearance, style, or general character and often involving incongruous or unexpected elements; outrageously or whimsically strange; odd: bizarre clothing; bizarre behavior. |
[Origin: 1640–50; < F < It bizzarro lively, capricious, eccentric, first attested (ca. 1300) in sense “irascible”; of disputed orig.]
] —Related forms
bi·zarre·ly, adverb
bi·zarre·ness, noun
—Synonyms weird, freakish, grotesque, ludicrous. See fantastic.
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| bi·zarre
(bĭ-zär') Pronunciation Key
adj. Strikingly unconventional and far-fetched in style or appearance; odd. See Synonyms at fantastic. [French, from Spanish bizarro, brave, probably from Basque bizar, beard.] bi·zarre'ly adv., bi·zarre'ness n. |
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Online Etymology Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
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bizarre
c.1648, from Fr. bizarre "odd, fantastic," originally "handsome, brave," from Basque bizar "a beard" (th notion being of the strange impression made in France by bearded Sp. soldiers); alternative etymology traces it to It. bizarro "angry, fierce, irascible," from bizza "fit of anger."
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
WordNet - Cite This Source - Share This
| bizarre | |
adjective | |
| 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" |
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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
Bizarre
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.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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