bizarre
/bɪˈzɑː(ɹ)/
bizarre adjective: strangely unconventional; highly unusual and different from common experience, often in an extravagant, fantastic, and/or conspicuous way.
Adjective
bizarre (comparative more bizarre or bizarrer, superlative most bizarre or bizarrest)
- Strangely unconventional; highly unusual and different from common experience, often in an extravagant, fantastic, and/or conspicuous way.
- That was a bizarre adventure!
- […]no, the abjectly unheroic nature of the death,—that was the sting,—that and the bizarre wording of the resulting obituary: “Shot with a rock, on a raft.”1880, Mark Twain [pseudonym] (Samuel L[anghorne] Clemens), chapter XVII, in A Tramp Abroad; […], Hartford, Conn.: American Publishing Company; London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC, pages 154–155
Noun
bizarre (plural bizarres)
- A carnation having stripes of two distinct colours on the white petals.
- A tulip with a certain pattern of various colored stripes.
- Another singular feature in the tulip is, that after it breaks, it ever remains the same, and never returns to its self-color again.
The show or fancy tulips are divided into three classes:—
1. Bybloemen, or violets, such as have a white ground, variegated with purple or violet, the edges well...1889 January 1, Polman Mooy, “The Tulip, Its Origin and History”, in City Document No. 76: Annual Report of the Superintendent of Common and Public Grounds (Documents of the City of Boston, for the...
- Another singular feature in the tulip is, that after it breaks, it ever remains the same, and never returns to its self-color again.
bizarre meaning in Urdu, Bengali, Malayalam and Indonesian
bizarre in Urdu
- عجیب, غیرحقیقی
bizarre in Bengali
- উদ্ভট, অদ্ভুত, অবাস্তব, অনাসৃষ্টি, কিন্ভূতকিমাকার
bizarre in Malayalam
- വിചിത്രം
bizarre in Indonesian
- strangely unconventional
- aneh
More languagesFewer languages
- bizarre in Persian
- عجیب و غریب 'ajib o ġarib, طرفه torfe
- bizarre in Vietnamese
- kỳ quái
Examples of bizarre in a sentence
- Strange as it all was, bizarre as it may hereafter seem even to us who felt its potent influence at the time, it comforted us much; and the silence, which showed Mrs.1897, Bram Stoker, Dracula, Westminster [London]: Archibald Constable and Company, […], →OCLC:
- I confess that I had not up to now taken a very serious view of the case, which had seemed to me rather grotesque and bizarre than dangerous.1903 December 26, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “The Adventure of the Solitary Cyclist”, in The Return of Sherlock Holmes, New York, N.Y.: McClure...
- That's what we are / We all want a love bizarre1985, “A Love Bizarre”, in Romance 1600, performed by Sheila E. ft. Prince:
- West Brom enjoyed more possession as the half progressed and were handed a penalty of their own in the 21st minute in bizarre circumstances.2011 October 22, Sam Sheringham, “Aston Villa 1 - 2 West Brom”, in BBC Sport, archived from the original on 27 Aug 2025:
Forms of bizarre
| Adjective | |
|---|---|
| comparative | more bizarre |
| comparative | bizarrer |
| superlative | most bizarre |
| superlative | bizarrest |
| Noun | |
| plural | bizarres |
Origin of bizarre
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).
Words formed from bizarre
Phrases with bizarre
Questions about bizarre
- What does bizarre mean?
- Bizarre means strangely unconventional; highly unusual and different from common experience, often in an extravagant, fantastic, and/or conspicuous way.
- What is bizarre in Urdu?
- Bizarre in Urdu is عجیب, غیرحقیقی. See Bizarre meaning in Urdu.
- How do you use bizarre in a sentence?
- Strange as it all was, bizarre as it may hereafter seem even to us who felt its potent influence at the time, it comforted us much; and the silence, which showed Mrs.
- What part of speech is bizarre?
- Bizarre can be an adjective or a noun.
- How do you pronounce bizarre?
- Bizarre is pronounced /bɪˈzɑː(ɹ)/.
Words near bizarre in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: bizarre (page history and authors); bizarre (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); bizarre (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); bizarre (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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