Bizarre means very strange indeed. A bizarre coincidence, utterly bizarre, bizarre behaviour.
It is stronger than odd and implies you cannot account for it. It is easily confused in spelling with bazaar, the market, which is an unrelated Persian word. The French came from an Italian word meaning angry or capricious.
1adjectivebizarreVery strange indeed.
“It was a bizarre dream in which my cat was driving a bus.”
bizarre is a quality of strangeness.
French bizarre comes from Italian bizzarro, which meant angry or capricious before it meant strange.
Italian
bizzarro — weird, eccentric, frisky
French
bizarre — odd, peculiar, bizarre”, formerly “headlong, angry
English, today
bizarre
French bizarre (“odd, peculiar, bizarre”, formerly “headlong, angry”), then either from Italian bizzarro (“weird, eccentric, frisky”) or, less likely, from Basque bizar.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA