bizarre

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   Very strange and unusual in a surprising way.

   That was a truly bizarre adventure!

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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