Dictionary Definition
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]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Pronunciation
- italbrac US /bɪ'zaɹ/, /bə'zaɹ/
Adjective
- strangely unconventional in style or appearance, from the French bizarre.
Translations
strangely unconventional
- Bulgarian: странен, особен, чудат
- Chinese: 奇怪 (qíguài), 不可思议 (bùkěsīyì)
- Finnish: outo, eriskummallinen, omituinen
- German: bizarr, komisch, seltsam
- Hebrew: מוזר (muzar) , מוזרה (muzara)
- Ido: bizara
- Portuguese: bizarro , bizarra , estranho , estranha
- Russian: неестественный, ненормальный, причудливый, странный, эксцентричный
- Spanish: extraño , extraña
- Turkish: tuhaf, acayip, garip
French
Pronunciation
- /bi.'za:ʁ/
- /bi.'za:R/
Etymology
From bizar.Related terms
Extensive Definition
Bizarre may refer to:
- Bizarre (rapper), solo rapper as well as member of the group D12
- Bizarre (TV series), Canadian sketch comedy television series starring John Byner
- Bizarre, fetish magazine published by John Willie
- Bizarre (magazine), sister magazine to the Fortean Times
- Bizarre Creations, video game developer best known for Metropolis Street Racer and the Project Gotham Racing series
- Bizarre Records, record label
- Some Bizzare Records, record label
- The Bizarre One, nickname for wrestler Dustin Rhodes
See also
- Bizzaria, a type of hybrid plant.
bizarre in French: Bizarre
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
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