Bizarre vs Dire - What's the difference?
bizarre | dire | Related terms |
strangely unconventional in style or appearance.
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Warning of bad consequences: ill-boding; portentous.
Requiring action to prevent bad consequences: urgent, pressing.
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, title= Expressing bad consequences: dreadful; dismal; horrible; terrible; lamentable.
(label) Bad in quality, awful, terrible.
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Bizarre is a related term of dire.
As an adjective bizarre
is strangely unconventional in style or appearance.As a verb dire is
.bizarre
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Adjective
(en-adj)citation, page= , passage=West Brom enjoyed more possession as the half progressed and were handed a penalty of their own in the 21st minute in bizarre circumstances.}}
Usage notes
The more'' and ''most forms are the most common comparative and superlative forms. While (bizarrest) is encountered not infrequently and is acceptable in most situations, (bizarrer) is rare and non-standard.Synonyms
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* ----dire
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Adjective
(en-adj)It's a gas, passage=One of the hidden glories of Victorian engineering is proper drains.
Norwich 4-2 Newcastle, passage=A second Norwich goal in four minutes arrived after some dire Newcastle defending. Gosling gave the ball away with a sloppy back-pass, allowing Crofts to curl in a cross that the unmarked Morison powered in with a firm, 12-yard header.}}
