bizarre
unconventional; highly unusual and different from common experience, often in an extravagant, fantastic, and/or conspicuous way.
Example
“That was a bizarre adventure!”
Synonyms
- eccentric
- flaky
- off-the-wall
Related words
- unbizarre
- bizarre caddisfly
- bizarre magic
- bizarrely
- bizarreness
- bizarro
- bizarrity
- bizarrerie
Example sentences
Word history
From Italian "bizzarro" (weird, eccentric, frisky).
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “bizarre” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.