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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Bizarre \Bi*zarre"\, adjective [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.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
bizarre
adjective: 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
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