bizarre
adjEtymology
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).
Definitions
Strangely unconventional
Strangely unconventional; highly unusual and different from common experience, often in an extravagant, fantastic, and/or conspicuous way.
- That was a bizarre adventure!
- […]no, the abjectly unheroic nature of the death,—that was the sting,—that and the bizarre wording of the resulting obituary: “Shot with a rock, on a raft.”
Any of several types of flower with stripes of various colours.
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at bizarre. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at bizarre. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
10 hops · closes at bizarre
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
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