— bizarrely , adv. — bizarreness , n.
/bi zahr"/ , adj.
markedly unusual in appearance, style, or general character and often involving incongruous or unexpected elements; outrageously or whimsically strange; odd: bizarre clothing; bizarre behavior.
[ 1640-50; bizzarro lively, capricious, eccentric, first attested (ca. 1300) in sense "irascible"; of disputed orig. ]
Syn . weird, freakish, grotesque, ludicrous. See fantastic .