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bizarre
/bəˈzɑɹ/
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What does bizarre mean?
adjective
- Strangely unconventional; highly unusual and different from common experience, often in an extravagant, fantastic, and/or conspicuous way.
noun
- A carnation having stripes of two distinct colours on the white petals.
- A tulip with a certain pattern of various colored stripes.
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IPA pronunciation
/bəˈzɑɹ/
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I own that for a time I was struck dumb by the bizarre associations of yard-arms and window-panes.
Is there, then, no distinction or difference between the most hide-bound conventionalists and the most brilliant and bizarre innovators?
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As a leisure-class usage of this kind we have, particularly, that bizarre survival of bellicose chivalry, the German student duel.
Every bizarre effect that could result from the random intertwining of watering-place glitter with the grand solemnity of a heath, was to be found in her.