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BIZARRE

bizarre

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.

 

 

 

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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