Meaning

2 senses

  1. Any of several types of flower with stripes of various colours.

    A carnation having stripes of two distinct colours on the white petals.

  2. A tulip with a certain pattern of various colored stripes.

Examples

75 sentences

  1. This is bizarre.

    Це дивно. — shanghainese

    ruЭто странно. — stariy

    deDas ist bizarr. — Adelpa

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  2. Tom told us a bizarre story.

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  3. I think that that's very bizarre.

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  4. Something bizarre happened to me last week.

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  5. Love is a bizarre feeling you can't express in words.

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Origin

Borrowed from French bizarre (“odd, peculiar, bizarre”, formerly “headlong, angry”), then

Borrowed from French bizarre (“odd, peculiar, bizarre”, formerly “headlong, angry”), then either from Italian bizzarro (“weird, eccentric, frisky”) or, less likely, from Basque bizar (literally “beard”, from the notion that bearded Spanish soldiers made a strange impression on the French).

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Forms

plural: bizarres
Singularbizarre
Pluralbizarres

regular

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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