bizarre
Plural: bizarres
Adjective Satellite
- conspicuously or grossly unconventional or unusual
- "restaurants of bizarre design--one like a hat, another like a rabbit"
Adj
- Strangely unconventional; highly unusual and different from common experience, often in an extravagant, fantastic, and/or conspicuous way.
Noun
- A strangely striped flower, often referring to a variety of tulip.
- A carnation having stripes of two distinct colours on the white petals.
Examples
- His bizarre behaviour caused people to stare at him.
- Playing BIZARRE felt like an unusual and unexpected move, but it scored big.
Origin / Etymology
Borrowed from French bizarre (“odd, peculiar, bizarre”, formerly “headlong, angry”). Either from Basque bizar (“a beard”) (the notion being that bearded Spanish soldiers made a strange impression on the French), or from Italian bizzarro.
Scrabble Score: 18
bizarre: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordbizarre: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
bizarre: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary
Words With Friends Score: 19
bizarre: valid Words With Friends Word