bizarre

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   Very strange and unusual in a surprising way.

   That was a truly bizarre adventure!

Simplified etymology

Bizarre is recorded in English from the mid-17th century. French used the word in its modern sense, but it comes from an Italian word meaning “angry.”

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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