Bizarre vs Idiosyncratic - What's the difference?
bizarre | idiosyncratic | Related terms |
strangely unconventional in style or appearance.
* {{quote-news, year=2011
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, title=Aston Villa 1 - 2 West Brom
, work=BBC Sport
Peculiar to a specific individual; eccentric.
* 1886 , (Robert Louis Stevenson), Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde , ch. 9:
* 1891 , (George MacDonald), The Flight of the Shadow , ch. 12:
* 1982 , Michael Walsh, "
Bizarre is a related term of idiosyncratic.
As adjectives the difference between bizarre and idiosyncratic
is that bizarre is strangely unconventional in style or appearance while idiosyncratic is peculiar to a specific individual; eccentric.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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* ----idiosyncratic
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- At the time, I set it down to some idiosyncratic , personal distaste . . . but I have since had reason to believe the cause to lie much deeper in the nature of man.
- It was no merely idiosyncratic experience, for the youth had the same: it was love!
Music: A Fresh Falstaff in Los Angeles," Time , 26 April:
- British Director Ronald Eyre kept the action crisp; he was correctly content to execute the composer's wishes, rather than impose a fashionably idiosyncratic view of his own.