bizarre — English Dictionary

Adjective

1. Strangely unconventional; highly unusual and different from common experience, often in an extravagant, fantastic, and/or conspicuous way.

   Examples

   That was a bizarre adventure!

   […]no, the abjectly unheroic nature of the death,—that was the sting,—that and the bizarre wording of the resulting obituary: “Shot with a rock, on a raft.”

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   Strange as it all was, bizarre as it may hereafter seem even to us who felt its potent influence at the time, it comforted us much; and the silence, which showed Mrs. Harker’s coming relapse from her freedom of soul, did not seem so full of despair to any of us as we had dreaded.

   […] she had brass leggings to the knee, brass wire gauntlets to the elbow, a crimson spot on her tawny cheek, innumerable necklaces of glass beads on her neck; bizarre things, charms, gifts of witch-men, that hung about her, glittered and trembled at every step.

   I confess that I had not up to now taken a very serious view of the case, which had seemed to me rather grotesque and bizarre than dangerous.

   That's what we are / We all want a love bizarre

   West Brom enjoyed more possession as the half progressed and were handed a penalty of their own in the 21st minute in bizarre circumstances.

   Unfortunately, she has used the attack as a launch pad for a bizarre and undercooked exercise in rhetorical bothsidesism, in which she argues that American Jews should be just as worried about college students who overzealously criticize Israel as they are about the aspiring Einsatzgruppen who shoot up shuls.

Noun

1. Any of several types of flower with stripes of various colours. A carnation having stripes of two distinct colours on the white petals.

2. Any of several types of flower with stripes of various colours. A tulip with a certain pattern of various colored stripes.

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   Another singular feature in the tulip is, that after it breaks, it ever remains the same, and never returns to its self-color again. The show or fancy tulips are divided into three classes:— 1. Bybloemen, or violets, such as have a white ground, variegated with purple or violet, the edges well feathered, the leaflets erect, and the whole forming a perfect cup. 2. Bizarres, having a yellow ground, variegated with rose, scarlet, purple, or violet. 3. Roses, with white ground color, variegated with rosy-red, pink, or soft rose.

Adjective

1. conspicuously or grossly unconventional or unusual

   Synonyms

   eccentricfreakishfreakyflakyflakeygonzooff-the-walloutlandishoutre

   Examples

   restaurants of bizarre design — one like a hat, another like a rabbit

   famed for his eccentric spelling

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   a freakish combination of styles

   his off-the-wall antics

   the outlandish clothes of teenagers

   outre and affected stage antics