Bizarre

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Bizarre \Bi*zarre"\, a. [F. bizarre odd, fr. Sp. bizarro
     gallant, brave, liberal, prob. of Basque origin; cf. Basque
     bizarra beard, whence the meaning manly, brave.]
     Odd in manner or appearance; fantastic; whimsical;
     extravagant; grotesque. --C. Kingsley.
     [1913 Webster]



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  bizarre
       adj : 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"; "his off-the-wall
             antics"; "the outlandish clothes of teenagers"; "outre
             and affected stage antics" [syn: {eccentric}, {freakish},
              {freaky}, {flaky}, {off-the-wall}, {outlandish}, {outre}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  83 Moby Thesaurus words for "bizarre":
     Gothic, absurd, amusing, antic, awe-inspiring, awesome, awful,
     awing, baroque, beyond belief, brain-born, cockamamie, crazy,
     curious, deformed, deviant, dream-built, droll, eccentric, eerie,
     erratic, extravagant, fanciful, fancy-born, fancy-built,
     fancy-woven, fantasque, fantastic, florid, foolish, freak,
     freakish, funny, grotesque, high-flown, hilarious, humorous,
     incongruous, incredible, irregular, kinky, laughable, ludicrous,
     maggoty, malformed, misbegotten, misshapen, monstrous, mysterious,
     nonconforming, nonconformist, nonsensical, notional, numinous, odd,
     oddball, offbeat, outlandish, outrageous, outre, peculiar,
     poppycockish, preposterous, priceless, quaint, queer, quizzical,
     rich, ridiculous, risible, rococo, screaming, singular, strange,
     teratogenic, teratoid, uncanny, unconventional, unusual, weird,
     whimsical, wild, witty