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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | strange, wild |
| Synonyms: | bugged out, camp*, comical, curious, eccentric, extraordinary, fantastic, far-out, freakish, grody, grotesque, kooky, ludicrous, odd, oddball, off the wall, offbeat, outlandish, outré, peculiar, queer, ridiculous, singular, unusual, way-out, weird |
| Notes: | a bazaar is a shop or market while bizarre means odd or unusual macabre means shockingly repellent or inspiring horror; bizarre means odd or unusual |
| Antonyms: | normal, reasonable, usual |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | abnormal |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | different from standard or norm |
| Synonyms: | aberrant, anomalistic, anomalous, atypical, bizarre, curious, deviant, deviate, deviating, divergent, eccentric, exceptional, extraordinary, fantastic, funny, grody, gross, heteroclite, heterodox, heteromorphic, irregular, odd, off-base, off-color, out of line, peculiar, preternatural, queer, screwy, spastic, strange, uncommon, unexpected, unnatural, unorthodox, unusual, weird |
| Notes: | abnormal means 'not normal, different from normal' while subnormal means 'below normal' |
| Antonyms: | customary, normal, standard, straight, usual |
| Main Entry: | anomalous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | deviating from normal, usual |
| Synonyms: | aberrant, abnormal, atypical, bizarre, divergent, eccentric, exceptional, foreign, heteroclite, incongruous, inconsistent, irregular, odd, peculiar, preternatural, prodigious, rare, strange, unnatural, unorthodox, unrepresentative, untypical, unusual |
| Antonyms: | conforming, normal, regular, standard, usual |
Example Sentences
- Back down in the valley bottom, we could hear bizarre noises.
- The beautiful, the charming and the downright bizarre all have their place in the collection.
- The author recalls a bizarre childhood during which she and her siblings were constantly on the move.
| Main Entry: | baroque |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | decorative, especially architecture |
| Synonyms: | bizarre, convoluted, elaborate, embellished, extravagant, flamboyant, florid, gilt, grotesque, ornamented, ornate, overdecorated, rich, rococo |
| Antonyms: | plain, unadorned, undecorated |
| Main Entry: | crazy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | unrealistic, fantastic |
| Synonyms: | absurd, balmy, beyond all reason, bizarre, cockeyed, derisory, eccentric, fatuous, foolhardy, foolish, goofy*, half-baked, harebrained, idiotic, ill-conceived, impracticable, imprudent, inane, inappropriate, insane, irresponsible, loony, ludicrous, nonsensical, odd, out of all reason, outrageous, peculiar, preposterous, puerile, quixotic, ridiculous, senseless, short-sighted, silly, strange, unworkable, weird, wild |
| Antonyms: | believeable, realistic, reasonable, sensible |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | curious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | very odd |
| Synonyms: | bizarre, exotic, extraordinary, marvelous, mysterious, novel, oddball, peculiar, puzzling, quaint, queer, rare, remarkable, singular, strange, unconventional, unexpected, unique, unorthodox, unusual, weird, wonderful |
| Antonyms: | average, normal, ordinary, usual |
| Main Entry: | different |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | separate, distinct |
| Synonyms: | another, another story, atypical, bizarre, discrete, diverse, especial, express, extraordinary, individual, novel, original, other, out of the ordinary, particular, peculiar, rare, several, singular, something else, special, specialized, specific, startling, strange, uncommon, unconventional, unique, unusual, various |
| Antonyms: | conventional, correspondent, harmonious, normal, same, standard, unified, united |
| Main Entry: | eccentric |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | bizarre, unusual |
| Synonyms: | aberrant, abnormal, anomalous, beat*, bent*, bizarre, capricious, characteristic, cockeyed, crazy, curious, droll, erratic, far out, flaky, freak, freakish, funky*, funny, idiosyncratic, irregular, kooky, nutty, odd, oddball, off the wall, off-center, offbeat, out in left field, outlandish, peculiar, quaint, queer, quirky, quizzical, singular, strange, uncommon, unconventional, unnatural, way out, weird, whimsical, wild |
| Antonyms: | boring, common, dull, normal, ordinary, plain, regular, standard, unexciting, usual |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | eerie |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | spooky |
| Synonyms: | awesome, bizarre, crawly, creepy, fantastic, fearful, frightening, ghostly, mysterious, scary, spectral, strange, supernatural, superstitious, uncanny, unearthly, weird |
| Antonyms: | funny, normal, ordinary, silly |
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