2021-05-28 ศัพท์ น่าสับสน ชุด – B – Bazaar & bizarre

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2021-05-28

ศัพท์ น่าสับสน ชุด – B – Bazaar & bizarre

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Dictionary.com

ออกเสียง Bazaar = ‘buh-ZAHR’

ออกเสียง bizarre = ‘bih-ZAHR’

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SYNONYM STUDY FOR BIZARRE

Bizarre, fantastic, grotesque, weird

share a sense of deviation from what is normal or expected.

Bizarre means markedly unusual or extraordinarily strange,

sometimes whimsically so:

bizarre costumes for Mardi Gras;

bizarre behavior.

Fantastic suggests a wild lack of restraint,

a fancifulness so extreme as to lose touchwith reality:

a fantastic scheme for a series of space cities.

In informal use,

fantastic often means simply “exceptionally good”:

a fantastic meal.

Grotesque implies shocking distortion or incongruity,

sometimes ludicrous, more often pitifulor tragic:

a grotesque mixture of human and animal features;

grotesque contrast between the forced smile and sad eyes:

a gnarled tree suggesting the figure of a grotesque human being.

Weird refers tothat which is mysterious

and apparently outside natural law, hencesupernatural or uncanny:

the weird adventures of a group lost in the jungle;

a weird and ghostly apparition.

Informally, weird means “very strange”:

weird and wacky costumes;

weird sense of humor.

Merriam-Webster Dictionary

Choose the Right Synonym for bizarre

Adjective

FANTASTIC, BIZARRE, GROTESQUE

mean conceived, made, orcarried out without adherence to truth or reality.

FANTASTIC may connote extravagance in conception or ingenuity of decorative invention.

dreamed up fantastic rumors

BIZARRE applies to the sensationally strange and implies violence of contrast or incongruity of combination.

a bizarre medieval castle in the heart of a modern city

GROTESQUE may apply to what is conventionally ugly but artistically effective or it may connote ludicrous awkwardness or incongruityoften with sinister or tragic overtones.

grotesque statues on the cathedral

though grieving, she made a grotesque attempt at a smile

Common Errors in English Usage Dictionary

Bazaar

A “bazaar” is a market wheremiscellaneous goods are sold.

“Bizarre,” in contrast, is an adjective

meaning “strange,” “weird.”

Let all those

As in “bazaar” remind you that this is a Persian word

denoting traditional markets.

Merriam-Webster Dictionary

Bazaar & bizarre

A bazaar refers to a market or fair at which goods are sold.

The word derives from Persian,

as it originallyreferred to such markets in Middle Eastern countries.

The adjective bizarre means“odd or eccentric,”

borrowed via French from the Italian bizzarro.

English formed its own word bizarro,

used often todescribe something

given an altered or fantastic interpretation

(as in: “a bizarro version of a classic children’s tale”)