Bizarre vs Exotic - What's the difference?
bizarre | exotic |
strangely unconventional in style or appearance.
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Foreign, especially in an exciting way.
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Being or relating to an option with features that make it more complex than commonly traded options.
(biology) An organism that is exotic to an environment.
An exotic dancer; a stripteaser.
(physics) Any exotic particle.
As adjectives the difference between bizarre and exotic
is that bizarre is strangely unconventional in style or appearance while exotic is exotic.bizarre
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Adjective
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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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Adjective
(en adjective)- Nothing was so splendid and exotic as the ambassador.
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Travels and travails, passage=Even without hovering drones, a lurking assassin, a thumping score and a denouement, the real-life story of Edward Snowden, a rogue spy on the run, could be straight out of the cinema. But, as with Hollywood, the subplots and exotic locations may distract from the real message: America’s discomfort and its foes’ glee.}}
Derived terms
* exotically * exoticness * exotic atom * exotic baryon * exotic cheroot * exotic dancer * exotic sphereNoun
(en noun)- Glueballs, theoretical particles composed only of gluons, are exotics .
