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BIZARRE

bi·zarre

adjective

Word Meaning:

unusual in appearance

outrageously or whimsically strange

often involving incongruous or unexpected elements

strikingly unconventional and far-fetched in style or appearance

very strange or unusual, esp. so as to cause interest or amusement

Bizarre Sentence Examples:

Back down in the valley bottom, we could hear bizarre noises.

A rather bizarregroup of Gospel Singers provided a contract in styles.

The beautiful, the charming and the downright bizarre all have their place in the collection.

Pressing the yellow button to back up seems bizarreto me - what is wrong with the back up button?

The U.S. paper industry has managed to come up with a truly bizarreway of specifying the density of paper.

Synonyms:

strange, peculiar, odd, funny, unusual, extraordinary, weird

Origin:

1640–50; < French < Italian bizzarro lively, capricious, eccentric, first attested (circa 1300) in se

nse “irascible”; of disputed orig.

Word story:

Strange, but true: bizarre is a word with a contested and murky background.

For a long time, it was conjectured that bizarre is of Basque origin, coming from the word bizarr

a, meaning “beard.” This same word supposedly passed into Spanish and Portuguese as bizarr

o, with the meaning “handsome” or “brave” (one imagines in the belief that a man with a beard

was endowed with those qualities). From there it was thought to have been adopted by the Fren

ch, who liked the word but apparently did not attribute the same heroic qualities to the bearded

man. In French, bizarre means “odd.”

Recently, a more likely etymology has gained ground—rather than from Spanish, the French wor

d is thought to have come from bizarro, an Italian word meaning “angry, choleric,” and which or

iginally meant “brave, soldier-like.” Now, this still means that we have to get from a word meani

ng “angry” to one meaning “odd,” but it is, perhaps, a less bizarre journey.

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