Bizarre vs. Weird

Bizarre vs. Weird — Is There a Difference?
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Difference Between Bizarre and Weird

Bizarreadjective

strangely unconventional in style or appearance.

Weirdadjective

(archaic) Of or pertaining to the Fates.

Bizarreadjective

conspicuously or grossly unconventional or unusual;

restaurants of bizarre design--one like a hat, another like a rabbitfamed for his eccentric spellinga freakish combination of styleshis off-the-wall anticsthe outlandish clothes of teenagersoutre and affected stage antics

Weirdadjective

(archaic) Connected with fate or destiny; able to influence fate.

Weirdadjective

(archaic) Of or pertaining to witches or witchcraft; supernatural; unearthly; suggestive of witches, witchcraft, or unearthliness; wild; uncanny.

Weirdadjective

(archaic) Having supernatural or preternatural power.

There was a weird light shining above the hill.
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Weirdadjective

Having an unusually strange character or behaviour.

There are lots of weird people in this place.

Weirdadjective

Deviating from the normal; bizarre.

It was quite weird to bump into all my ex-girlfriends on the same day.

Weirdnoun

(archaic) Fate; destiny; luck.

Weirdnoun

A prediction.

Weirdnoun

A spell or charm.

Weirdnoun

That which comes to pass; a fact.

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Weirdnoun

The Fates (personified).

Weirdverb

(transitive) To destine; doom; change by witchcraft or sorcery.

Weirdverb

(transitive) To warn solemnly; adjure.

Weirdnoun

Fate personified; one of the three Weird Sisters

Weirdadjective

suggesting the operation of supernatural influences;

an eldritch screechthe three weird sistersstumps...had uncanny shapes as of monstrous creaturesan unearthly lighthe could hear the unearthly scream of some curlew piercing the din

Weirdadjective

strikingly odd or unusual;

some trick of the moonlight; some weird effect of shadow