1
as in bizarre
different from the ordinary in a way that causes curiosity or suspicion
the cat was acting pretty bizarro this morning, and I'm worried about him
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as in strange
excitingly or mysteriously unusual
a bizarro comedy that earned a cult following
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Recent Examples of bizarro
But the Little Monsters fan base sure got its money’s worth, with a show that managed — in truest Gaga fashion — to be equal parts bizarro and sentimental.
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Chris Willman, Variety, 12 Apr. 2025
Connect the dots, bizarro style The flow chart on this is pretty amazing.
—Dalton Ross, EW.com, 17 Apr. 2025
The game’s blocky bizarro aesthetic has given it global recognition; its free-range exploration on a terrain the size of Neptune has earned it over $3 billion.
—Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 2 Apr. 2025
Twangy instrumentation plays the background to Elliott’s boasts of sipping Alize in the club, turning it over to Lady Saw to provide some island flavor to the bizarro club cut.
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—Steven J. Horowitz, Vulture, 11 Apr. 2025
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Chris Willman, Variety, 12 Apr. 2025
Connect the dots, bizarro style The flow chart on this is pretty amazing.
—Dalton Ross, EW.com, 17 Apr. 2025
The game’s blocky bizarro aesthetic has given it global recognition; its free-range exploration on a terrain the size of Neptune has earned it over $3 billion.
—Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 2 Apr. 2025
Twangy instrumentation plays the background to Elliott’s boasts of sipping Alize in the club, turning it over to Lady Saw to provide some island flavor to the bizarro club cut.
48.
—Steven J. Horowitz, Vulture, 11 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for bizarro
Adjective
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After a couple of insulting caricatures, increasingly bizarre depictions of the Vice President started to spread through the internet, the trend becoming a competition to see who could create the most hideous, weird or original Vance.—
Dani Di Placido,
Forbes.com,
7 Aug. 2025
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These clever yet bizarre gadgets are both fun and oddly useful.—
Nora Colomer
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FOXNews.com,
6 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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What begins as a strange ritual quickly unravels into a waking nightmare.—
Matt Grobar,
Deadline,
14 Aug. 2025
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The craft beer industry is in a strange place right now.—
Hudson Lindenberger,
Forbes.com,
14 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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Two-tone paint job and that weird hump of a trunk, remember?—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
14 Aug. 2025
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Like everybody else in the show, he’s squeezed by the various, weird incentives of a capitalist medical system.—
Ben Travers,
IndieWire,
14 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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Stockholm was among the most romantic places to be in Europe during World War II, according to Pat DiGeorge.—
Andrew Stanton,
MSNBC Newsweek,
14 Aug. 2025
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From Ludwigshafen, day-trip to Heidelberg’s romantic hilltop castle.—
Jill Schildhouse,
Forbes.com,
14 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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Charlie Brown has evolved into something nicer In those days, Charles M. Schulz’s comic and its characters were meaner, the humor darker (and, frankly, funnier).—
Bill Goodykoontz,
AZCentral.com,
11 Aug. 2025
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Adam Johnson, The Orphan Master’s Son Set in contemporary North Korea, this epic, harrowing, and darkly funny novel follows a man caught in a totalitarian machine.—
Mark Nevins,
Forbes.com,
11 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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Even the Europa Conference League starts to look exotic and glamorous after a while.—
Jack Pitt-Brooke,
New York Times,
12 Aug. 2025
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Burmese pythons are native to Southeast Asia and made their way to the U.S. via the exotic pet trade, experts say.—
Mark Price,
Miami Herald,
11 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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Sometimes an oven is like that mysterious black box on a magician's stage where odd things go in, and something far more delightful comes out.—
Sheri Castle,
Southern Living,
7 Aug. 2025
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The first thing that edged out of this woodwork is the odd confluence of these pitches.—
Laura Washington,
Chicago Tribune,
6 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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They’re endangered, and a few years ago, the fish began dying at alarming rates from a peculiar sickness.—
Jack Prator,
The Orlando Sentinel,
16 Aug. 2025
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This creates a peculiar situation where employees have better analytical tools at home than in the office where they’re paid to analyze, research and create.—
Steven Wolfe Pereira,
Forbes.com,
11 Aug. 2025
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“Bizarro.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bizarro. Accessed 22 Aug. 2025.
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