Crossword Dictionary
bizarre
bizarre - a
conspicuously or grossly unconventional or unusual
Synonyms
absurd, crazy, fanciful, fantastic (also fantastical), foolish, insane, nonsensical, preposterous, unreal, wild
sentence examples
“I just heard the most bizarre story.â€
"She wore a bizarre outfit."
“Some of the most bizarre details here are, in fact, historically true.â€
etymology
bizarre (adj.)
"fantastical, odd, grotesque," 1640s, from French bizarre "odd, fantastic" (16c.), from Italian bizarro "irascible, tending to quick flashes of anger" (13c.), from bizza "fit of anger, quick flash of anger" (13c.). The sense in Italian evolved to "unpredictable, eccentric," then "strange, weird," in which sense it was taken into French and then English. Older derivation from Basque bizar "a beard" is no longer considered tenable.