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Incongruous vs Bizarre - What's the difference?

incongruous | bizarre |

As adjectives the difference between incongruous and bizarre

is that incongruous is not similar or congruent; not matching or fitting in while bizarre is strangely unconventional in style or appearance.

incongruous

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Not similar or congruent; not matching or fitting in.
  • * 1853 , , Villette , ch. 34:
  • [P]erhaps he thought me, with my basket of summer fruit, and my lack of the dignity age confers, an incongruous figure in such a scene.
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  • Ona was blue-eyed and fair, while Jurgis had great black eyes with beetling brows, and thick black hair that curled in waves about his ears—in short, they were one of those incongruous and impossible married couples with which Mother Nature so often wills to confound all prophets.
  • * 1912 , , A Son Of The Sun m ch. 1:
  • Ardent suns had likewise tanned his face till it was swarthy as a Spaniard's. The yellow mustache appeared incongruous in the midst of such swarthiness.
  • * 2014 , Daniel Taylor, England and Wayne Rooney see off Scotland in their own back yard'' (in ''The Guardian , 18 November 2014)[http://www.theguardian.com/football/2014/nov/18/scotland-england-international-friendly-match-report]
  • For a few moments England toyed with the idea of making it a more difficult night than necessary. Scotland had scored a goal that seemed incongruous to the rest of their performance and, briefly, a fiercely partisan crowd sensed an improbable comeback.
  • (math) Of two numbers, with respect to a third, such that their difference can not be divided by it without a remainder.
  • 20 and 25 are incongruous with respect to 4.

    Derived terms

    * incongruously * incongruousness

    bizarre

    English

    Adjective

    (en-adj)
  • strangely unconventional in style or appearance.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2011
  • , date=October 22 , author=Sam Sheringham , title=Aston Villa 1 - 2 West Brom , work=BBC Sport 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.

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