bizarre

Meaning

Adjective

• strangely unconventional; highly unusual and different from common experience, often in an extravagant, fantastic, and/or conspicuous way.

Origin

• Borrowed from French bizarre ("odd, peculiar, bizarre, formerly headlong, angry"). Either from Basque bizar ("a beard") (the notion being that bearded Spanish soldiers made a strange impression on the French), or from Italian bizzarro.