Bizarre

Definition: Bizarre

Bizarre

Adjective

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"; "the outlandish clothes of teenagers"; "outre and affected stage antics".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "bizarre" was first used: sometime in the early 17th century. (references)

Etymology: Bizarre \Bi*zarre"\, adjective. [French expression bizarre odd, from Spanish bizarro gallant, brave, liberal, probably of Basque origin; compare to Basque bizarra beard, whence the meaning manly, brave.]. (references)

Synonyms: Bizarre

Improbability

Rare; (infrequent); unheard of, inconceivable; unimaginable, inimaginable; incredible; more than doubtful; strange, bizarre (uncomformable).

Ridiculousness

Adjective: ridiculous, ludicrous; comical; droll, funny, laughable, pour rire, grotesque, farcical, odd; whimsical, whimsical as a dancing bear; fanciful, fantastic, queer, rum, quizzical, quaint, bizarre; screaming; eccentric; (unconformable); strange, outlandish, out of the way, baroque, weird; awkward; (ugly).

Ugliness

Frightful, hideous, odious, uncanny, forbidding; repellant, repulsive, repugnant, grotesque, bizarre; grody, grody to the max; horrid, horrible; shocking; (painful).

Unconformity

Unusual, unaccustomed, uncustomary, unwonted, uncommon; rare, curious, odd, extraordinary, out of the ordinary; strange, monstrous; wonderful; unexpected, unaccountable; outre, out of the way, remarkable, noteworthy; queer, quaint, nondescript, none such, sui generis; unfashionable; fantastic, grotesque, bizarre; outlandish, exotic, tombe des nues, preternatural; denaturalized.

Crosswords: Bizarre

French (bizarre, droll, eccentric, freakish, freaky, funny, intriguing, odd, outlandish, peculiar, quaint, queer, rum, strange, twisted, unusual, weird).

I was just having this bizarre dream that I was just born and I was 8 months premature (So I Married An Axe Murder; writing credit: Robbie Fox, Neil Mullarkey, Mike Myers)

So you're upset that this bizarre carpet cabal made no attempt to brainwash you. (Seinfeld; writing credit: Andreas Lenze; Bea Schmidt)

Now, let's have no more curiosity about this bizarre cover-up (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge)

There, I was visited by a bizarre, strange imp of a man. (AlfTales; writing credit: Bradley Kesden; Mitchell Kriegman)

I have seen some strange, bizarre drivers, but you (Short Circuit; writing credit: Brent Maddock; S.S. Wilson)

And watching over lucky clover isn't that bizarre (The Reflex; performing artist: Duran Duran)

Bizarre Life of Dominas (1969)

The Bizarre Ones (1968)

Jo Jo's Bizarre Adventure (2000)

Teeny Exzesse: Bizarre Visionen (1999)

Bizarre Lust (1995)

How Bizarre (performing artist: OMC)

A Love Bizarre (performing artist: Sheila E.)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Are You Smart, or What? A Bizarre Book of Games & Fun for Everyone (reference)

• Best of Bizarre (TASCHEN Icons Series) (reference)

• Bizarre: The Complete Reprint of John Willie's Bizarre, Vols. 1-26 (reference)

• Facts and Phalluses: A Collection of Bizarre and Intriguing Truths, Legends, and Measurements (reference)

• Found on Ebay: 101 Genuinely Bizarre Items from the World's Online Yard Sale (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Beyond Bizarre, Vol. 1 (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• G.P. Telemann: La Bizarre Suites (reference)

• Bizarre Ride II the Pharcyde [EXPLICIT LYRICS] (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• JoJo's Bizarre Adventure (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Resembling a bizarre setting from a science fiction movie, dramatic images sent back by the ... Credit: NASA.

3-D image from NOAA Exclusive Economic Zone Mapping Project Sigsbee Escarpment and bizarre topography of Texas-Louisiana Slope Image shows approximately 9,000 square nautical miles. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Departing NOAA Ship FAIRWEATHER in Boston whaler Note bizarre roll clouds. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Bizarre clouds in the Gulf of Mexico. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Same bizarre clouds in the Gulf of Mexico. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

A bizarre effect of time-lapse photography makes Clean Air Facility appear to be illuminated by triangular shaft of reflected sunlight. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Health

The variety of street names for PCP reflects its bizarre and volatile effects. (references)

When people awaken during REM sleep, they often describe bizarre and illogical tales — dreams. (references)

They can begin to exhibit bizarre behaviors such as pacing, wandering, screaming, and physical or verbal aggression. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "bizarre": bizarre uncomformable ♦ really bizarre. Additional references.

Beginning with "bizarre": bizarre-looking, bizarre-rather.

Albanian

i çuditshëm (cranky, curious, dark, eccentric, electric, erratic, extraordinary, fanciful, fantastic, fantastical, frabjous, freak, freakish, funny, grotesque, kinky, odd, oddish, off beat, outlandish, peculiar, pixilated, puzzling, quaint, queer, quizzical, rummy, strange, surprising, uncanny, unco, unnatural, unusual, viewy, way out, weird, whimsical), fantastik (chimerical, fanciful, fantastic, fantastical). (various references)

Arabic 

‏غريب (absurd, alien, anomalous, antic, eerie, eery, exotic, extraneous, fanciful, foreign, freakish, funny, grotesque, intruder, ludicrous, new, odd, outlandish, outsider, peculiar, potty, quaint, queer, rum, senseless, singular, strange, stranger, tall, unaccustomed, uncanny, uncouth, unearthly, unfamiliar, unnatural, whimsical), ‏عجيب (amazement, fanciful, freakish, funny, marvellous, marvelous, odd, odd jobs, peculiar, phenomenal, portentous, prestigious, puzzling, rats, rum, staring, stupendous, tall, temperamental, weird, wonder, wonderful, wondrous), ‏شاذ (aberrant, anomalous, atypical, bastard, eccentric, erratic, exotic, extraordinary, extravagant, far fetched, freak, intriguing, irregular, monstrous, moonstruck, odd, off beat, outlandish, preternatural, prodigious, queer, rogue, scatty, singular, stupendous, thumping, wild). (various references)

Bulgarian 

странен (comic, comical, fantastic, fantastical, freakish, funny, grotesque, novel, odd, outlandish, peculiar, quaint, queer, remarkable, rum, rummy, screwy, singular, strange, uncanny, unco, unheard of, weird, whimsical), чудноват (fanciful, fantastic, fantastical, freakish), ексцентричен (cranky, eccentric, kinky, lunatic, off beat, original, outrageous, outre, peculiar, pixilated, queer, singular, viewy). (various references)

Chinese 

异常 (Anomalous, Deviant, Eccentric, Eccentrical, unusual). (various references)

Czech

bizarní (fanciful, fantastic, freak, outlandish, queer, weird). (various references)

Danish

bizarre indfald (bizarre ideas, eccentric ideas, strange ideas), barokke ideer (bizarre ideas, eccentric ideas, strange ideas). (various references)

Dutch

bizar (odd, weird). (various references)

Esperanto

bizara (odd, weird). (various references)

Farsi 

ناشی ازهوس , وهمی (Illusive, Illusory, Imaginary, Uncanny, Unreal, Unrealistic), غیرمانوس , غریب وعجیب (Grotesque), خیالی (Abstract, Brainchild, Dreamy, Image, Imaginary, Phantom, Poetic, Romantic, Unreal, Unrealistic, Visionary). (various references)

Finnish

hullunkurinen (absurd, comical, droll, extremely funny, ludicrous), eriskummallinen (curious, extraordinary, odd, peculiar, queer, strange). (various references)

French

bizarre. (various references)

German

bizarr (bizarrely, fantastic), barock (baroque, florid, ornate), wunderlich (cranky, fantastic, fantastical, grotesque, odd, peculiar, quaint, strange, whimsical, whimsically, wondrous), seltsam (curious, curiously, extraordinary, fancy, foreign, interesting, odd, outlandish, outlandishness, peculiar, peculiarly, quaint, queer, queerly, strange, strangely, unaccountable, weird, whimsical), phantastisch (awesomeUS, chimeric, cracking, fanciful, fantastic, fantastically, glorious, incredible, luscious, phenomenal, stupendous, terrific, unreal, visionarily, visionary). (various references)

Greek 

παράξενοσ (codger, crotchety, curious, eerie, freakish, funny, grotesque, outlandish, peculiar, quaint, queer, quizzical, rum, strange), εκκεντρικόσ (aberrational, crackpot, cranky, eccentric, erratic, fogey, fogy, notional, pixilated, screw-ball, wacky, weirdie), εκκεντρικός (eccentric, freakish, quirky), αλλόκοτοσ (eerie, grotesque, nondescript, odd, quaint, queer, weird). (various references)

Hungarian

bizarr (eccentric, fantastic, funny, odd, queer, surreal, weird), groteszk (fantastic, fantasy, grotesque, ludicrous, surreal), furcsa (bonkers, cockeyed, curious, dorky, droll, fanciful, fantasy, freakish, freaky, funny, grotesque, how odd that, kooky, louche, odd, outlandish, quaint, queer, quizzical, rum, rummy, strange, strange to say, weird). (various references)

Italian

bizzarro (antic, odd, outlandish, quaint, queer, rummy, strange), singolare (curious, newfangled, rare, rummy, singular, strange, unexampled, unusual). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

異様　 (eccentric, strange), 異様 (eccentric, odd, queer, strange), 怪奇 (outrageous, strange, weird, wonderful), 奇想天外 (a fantastic idea), 奇奇怪怪 (very strange). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

きそうてんがい (a fantastic idea), ききかいかい (very strange), かいき (a type of thin thread, buying mood, death anniversary, foundation of a temple, laying a foundation, outrageous, recovery, recurrence, recursion, revolution, session, society by-laws, strange, total eclipse, totality, weird, wonderful), いよう (dignity, eccentric, majestic appearance, medical use, odd, queer, strange). (various references)

Korean 

기괴한. (various references)

Manx

joarree (alien, foreign, odd, outlander, outlandish, outsider, peculiar, remarkable, strange, stranger, unfamiliar). (various references)

Pig Latin

izarrebay.(various references)

Portuguese

excêntrico (barmy, cam, capricious, cranky, crotcheteer, crotchety, eccentric, eccentrical, erratic, kinky, lunatic, madcap, odd, oddball, peculiar, potty, quaint, queer, quizzical, strange, suburban, tappet, wacky, weird, whimsical, wobbler), bizarro (antic, freakish, kinky, odd, quaint, weird, whimsical). (various references)

Romanian

bizar (droll, extravagant, fancy, quaint, queer, rummy, singular, strange, strangely, whimsical), straniu (awesome, curiously, eerie, eery, funny, novel, odd, out of the way, particular, peculiar, queer, rum, singular, strange, strangely, uncanny, uncouth, unearthly, weird, whimsical), excentric (crackpot, cranky, crazy, crotchety, eccentric, extravagant, fancy, fantastic, fantastical, lunatic, maggot, nut, odd, oddity, original, queer, tappet), abracadabrant (abstruse, fantastic, fantastical). (various references)

Russian 

причудливый (capricious, crotchety, fanciful, fantastic, fantastical, freaky, quaint, quirky, whimsical). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

bizaran. (various references)

Spanish

extraño (alien, dago, droll, eerie, extraneous, foreign, kinky, odd, oddish, out of the way, peculiar, quaint, queer, quizzical, rum, rummy, singular, strange, stranger, uncommon, weird), estrafalario (eccentric, extravagant, fancy, incongruous, odd, outlandish, screwball, sloppy, slovenly, tacky, wack, wild, zany). (various references)

Swedish

bisarra, bisarr (camp, far out, odd, outlandish). (various references)

Thai

แปลกประหลาดมาก. (various references)

Turkish

tuhaf (antic, comical, cranky, curious, droll, erratic, flaky, funnily, funny, funny peculiar, laughable, odd, offbeat, peculiar, peregrine, queer, quizzical, rum, rummy, screwball, screwy, singular, splay, strange, twee, unaccustomed, uncouth, unusual, weird, whimsical), garip (awkward, codger, comical, cranky, crotchety, curious, droll, eccentric, exotic, fanciful, fancy, fantastic, fantastical, far out, freak, freakish, funny, funny peculiar, grotesque, kinky, odd, out of the way, outlandish, poor, queer, quizzical, rum, rummy, screwball, screwy, strange, weirdo, whimsical), acayip (antic, bughouse, comical, comically, crotchety, curious, droll, exotic, fanciful, fantastic, fantastical, flaky, freak, freakish, grotesque, incongruous, kinky, kooky, novel, odd, out of the way, outlandish, peculiar, quaint, queer, quirky, quizzical, rum, rummy, screwball, singular, some, splendiferous, strange, uncanny, unco, unusual, weird). (various references)

Ukrainian

чудний (antic, droll, erratic, funny, odd, oddball, oddish, outlandish, singular, strange), ексцентричний (cranky, eccentric, eccentrical, fantastic, fantastical, odd, oddball, oddish, offbeat, outre, queer, wacky, whacky, whimsical), дивний (amazing, astonishing, astounding, capricious, curious, freakish, odd, oddball, oddish, offbeat, original, out of the way, outlandish, quaint, queer, rum, rummy, strange, unaccountable, weird, wonderful, wondrous). (various references)

Vietnamese 

kỳ quái (eerie, eery, fantastic, miscreated, monstrous), kỳ lạ (droll, marvellous, uncanny, walloping, wonderful), kỳ dị (arabesque, baroque, curious, singular, strange, uncommon, weird, whimsical). (various references)

Welsh

rhyfedd (funny, humorous, odd, queer, strange, wonderful), od (odd, strange), chwithig (awkward, strange, wrong). (various references)

bizarre. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "bizarre": bizarrely, bizarreness, bizarrenesses, bizarrerie, bizarreries, bizarres. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Bizarre" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: baarrrp, Basari, bazarr, bazarre, Bazzaro, bazzarre, Bezirke, biare, biarre, Biozorb, Bishari, bixarre, bizaare, bizairre, bizar, bizare, bizaro, bizarr, bizarro, Bizri, bizzare, bizzarre, bizzarres, Bizzarri, Izari, Pisarro, Tidarren. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: brazier.

-1 letter: braize, brazer.

-2 letters: airer, baize, barer, barre, braze, briar, brier, razer, rebar, zaire, zebra.

-3 letters: abri, bare, bear, bier, birr, bize, brae, brie, izar, rare, raze, rear.

-4 letters: air, arb, are, bar, biz, bra, brr, ear, era, err, ire, reb, rei, ria, rib.

-5 letters: ab, ae, ai, ar, ba, be, bi, er, re.

+1 letter: arborize, bizarres, braziers.

+2 letters: arborized, arborizes, barbarize, bizarrely, carburize.

+3 letters: barbarized, barbarizes, bizarrerie, burglarize, carburized, carburizes, verbalizer.

+4 letters: bizarreness, bizarreries, burglarized, burglarizes, decarburize, liberalizer, trailblazer, verbalizers.

+5 letters: decarbonizer, decarburized, decarburizes, liberalizers, procarbazine, trailblazers.