English Explanatory Dictionary

bizarre

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. Strangely unconventional; highly unusual and different from common experience, often in an extravagant, fantastic, and/or conspicuous way.
noun
  1. Any of several types of flower with stripes of various colours.
  2. A carnation having stripes of two distinct colours on the white petals.
  3. A tulip with a certain pattern of various colored stripes.

Pronunciation

/bɪˈzɑː(ɹ)/ en-uk-bizarre.ogg /bəˈzɑː(ɹ)/ /bɪˈzɑɹ/ en-us-bizarre.ogg /bəˈzɑɹ/

Word forms

bizarre more bizarre bizarrer most bizarre bizarrest bizarres

Etymology

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).

Derived words

bizarre caddisfly bizarrely bizarre magic bizarreness bizarrerie bizarrity bizarro unbizarre
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