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 Definitions for bizarre: The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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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.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 2.0
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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]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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83 Moby Thesaurus words for "bizarre":
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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