bizarre

Speech parts

1. bizarre - Adjective

2. bizarre - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Odd in manner or appearance; fantastic; whimsical; extravagant; grotesque.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

eccentric outlandish weird queer unusual strange funny peculiar curious idiosyncratic grotesque deviant uncanny eerie flaky
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Antonyms

common series natural average standard majority
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Phrases with the word

bizarre contrast bizarre act bizarre variation bizarre fish bizarre law bizarre sexual infatuation

Anagrams

brazier

Examples

There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable.There is another theory which states that this has already happened. Douglas Adams

The beautiful is always bizarre. Charles Baudelaire

No matter how calmly you try to referee, parenting will eventually produce bizarre behavior, and I'm not talking about the kids. Their behavior is always normal. Bill Cosby

As a rule, said Holmes, the more bizarre a thing is the less mysterious it proves to be. It is your commonplace, featureless crimes which are really puzzling, just as a commonplace face is the most difficult to identify. Arthur Conan Doyle

A neurosis defends itself by coming up with rationalizations to explain away bizarre behavior. David Brin

We should take comfort in two conjoined features of nature: first, that our world is incredibly strange and therefore supremely fascinating ... second, that however bizarre and arcane our world might be, nature remains potentially comprehensible to the human mind. Stephen Jay Gould

Close letter words and terms

Bizantian bizantine Bizantium bizarre act bizarre caddisfly bizarre contrast