bizarre

Etymology
Borrowed from. Either from (the notion being that bearded Spanish soldiers made a strange impression on the French), or from.

Adjective

 * 1) Strangely unconventional; highly unusual and different from common experience, often in an extravagant, fantastic, and/or conspicuous way.

Usage notes

 * The comparative and superlative forms with and  are predominant. The alternative superlative  is fairly common, whereas the comparative  is very rare.

Synonyms

 * See also Thesaurus:strange

Translations

 * Bulgarian:, ,
 * Catalan:, estrafolari
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: bizara
 * Finnish:, ,
 * French:
 * Galician: estrano, estraio, rechamante,, desavieso
 * German:, ,
 * Hebrew: ,
 * Hungarian:
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian:
 * Interlingua: bizarre
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Limburgish: biezar
 * Maori: haraki, pakepakehā, pākehakeha
 * Persian: ,
 * Polish:, cudaczny, ,
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Romanian: ,
 * Russian:, , , , ,
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Spanish:, , ,
 * Swedish:
 * Turkish:, ,
 * Vietnamese:

Etymology
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Adjective

 * , odd, strange, funny
 * 1) peculiar, quaint
 * 1) peculiar, quaint
 * 1) peculiar, quaint

Usage notes

 * Bizarre can mean "bizarre" but it is also used for strange situations that are less extreme than would be connoted by "bizarre" in English.

Adjective

 * 1) bizarre