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bizarre

bi·zarre

bizarre

 
 
pronunciation:
bih zar
features:
Word Combinations (adjective)
part of speech: adjective
definition: strikingly odd or unusual, esp. in appearance or behavior.
She wore a bizarre costume with long black feathers and snake-like arms.We began to worry about him when his behavior started to become bizarre.
 
synonyms:
crazy, fantastic, odd, outlandish, peculiar, strange, weird
antonyms:
conventional, normal
similar words:
abnormal, antic, curious, eccentric, erratic, funny, grotesque, kinky, offbeat, outrageous, queer, singular, unusual, wild
Word Combinations  About this feature
adverb + (adj.)bizarre downright, equally, increasingly, incredibly, most, pretty, rather, totally, truly, utterly
(adj.)bizarre + adverb seemingly, terribly
(adj.)bizarre + noun accident, alien, appearance, array, assortment, attraction, baroque, beast, behavior, chapter, circumstance, coincidence, concoction, confession, conspiracy, creature, cult, delusion, discovery, disorder, distortion, encounter, episode, event, experiment, explanation, fantasy, fashion, fiction, formation, gesture, grotesque, hallucination, imagery, incident, irony, joke, journey, juxtaposition, kidnapping, logic, manifestation, monster, murder, mystery, notion, obsession, occurrence, particle, phenomenon, plot, request, revelation, ritual, rumor, scenario, scene, scheme, sculpture, sect, sight, spectacle, story, symptom, tableau, tale, triangle, turn, twist, underworld  [See all][See only the most frequent]
derivations: bizarrely (adv.), bizarreness (n.)