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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: 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: bizarre, eccentric, freakish, freaky, flaky, flakey, gonzo, off- the-wall, outlandish, outre]

Merriam Webster's

I. adjective Etymology: French, from Italian bizzarro Date: circa 1648 strikingly out of the ordinary: as a. odd, extravagant, or eccentric in style or mode b. involving sensational contrasts or incongruities Synonyms: see fantastic • bizarrely adverb • bizarreness noun II. noun Date: circa 1753 a flower with atypical striped marking

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. strange in appearance or effect; eccentric; grotesque. Derivatives: bizarrely adv. bizarreness n. Etymology: F, = handsome, brave, f. Sp. & Port. bizarro f. Basque bizarra beard

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

Something that is bizarre is very odd and strange. The game was also notable for the bizarre behaviour of the team's manager... = weird ADJ • bizarrely She dressed bizarrely... ADV: ADV with v, ADV adj, ADV with cl

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a. [Fr.] Odd, fantastic, strange, singular, whimsical, incongruous, extravagant, outlandish.

Moby Thesaurus

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