Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

bizarre

/bɪˈzɑː(ɹ)/

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: 4.02 in modern English

Syllables: bizarre
IPA: /bɪˈzɑː(ɹ)/

18

Scrabble Score

7

Letters

2

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

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

noun

Any of several types of flower with stripes of various colours.

noun

Any of several types of flower with stripes of various colours.

Example Sentences

"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.”"
"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"

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).

Origin

Source language: Italian

Word Breakdown

Root: bizzarro, bizar

Inflected Forms

more bizarre (comparative) bizarrer (comparative) most bizarre (superlative) bizarrest (superlative) bizarres (plural)

Derived Forms

bizarrely bizarreness bizarrerie bizarrity bizarro unbizarre

Phrases

bizarre caddisfly bizarre magic

Synonyms

eccentric freakish freaky flaky flakey gonzo off-the-wall outlandish outre

Homonyms

bazaar (weak vowel merger)

Rhymes With

are far car star all-star bar guitar hr pr mar par ar

Questions

How do you pronounce bizarre?: The recorded pronunciation is /bɪˈzɑː(ɹ)/.
What does bizarre mean?: Strangely unconventional; highly unusual and different from common experience, often in an extravagant, fantastic, and/or conspicuous way.
Where does bizarre come from?: It is traced to Italian.

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