(a.) Odd in manner or appearance; fantastic; whimsical; extravagant; grotesque.
Example Sentences:
(1) One of the most interesting aspects of the shadow cabinet elections, not always readily interpreted because of the bizarre process of alliances of convenience, is whether his colleagues are ready to forgive and forget his long years as Brown's representative on earth.
(2) Pearson had been informed after that bizarre incident that he was out of a job only to be told that he was back in work a few hours later .
(3) Wimbledon said the world No1 Williams had been suffering from a viral illness and it was a sad and bizarre end to the American’s tournament, not to mention a worrying sight, seeing her hardly able to play.
(4) All four predictor variables were found to be related, and it was shown that ratings of figure bizarreness alone adequately predicted the criterion.
(5) When the director told him he wanted to make The Deal, Morgan thought, bizarrely, that it was an act of kindness.
(6) Electron microscopy of two cases of anaplastic giant cell tumor of the thyroid revealed that these neoplasms consisted of pleomorphic cells with large, bizarre-shaped nuclei and relatively little cytoplasm rich in rough endoplasmic reticulum.
(7) Deeper levels showed aggregations of bizarre structures, which the authors term "vermiform bodies," and which appear to be collections of abnormal amounts and types of elastic tissue.
(8) When the blind monkey sleeps, the bizarre EEG is replaced by patterns wholly normal in appearance,32 indicating that some nonvisual system has extensive access to striate cortex in this state.
(9) In a bizarre moment, Campbell turned to Morrison and asked: "Minister, is the government considering now or in the future a change to Australia's border security policies regarding illegal maritime arrivals?"
(10) A pair of bizarre photographs have been widely circulated online, that appear to show alleged EgyptAir hijacker Seif Eldin Mustafa posing for pictures with passengers in what is believed to have been a fake suicide belt.
(11) What makes that really bizarre is that his club manager Ricki Herbert is also his international manager, so presumably New Zeland can reasonably be assumed to be worse than A-League also-rans Wellington."
(12) Our tolerance for this bizarre and inexplicable system of reward is the most extreme but far from the most damaging effect of the hold that the City has on the country.
(13) The following differential signs were underlined: initial symptoms, such as rudimentary cenesthopathia, stable insomnia, etc., preceding the formation of delusions; appearance of episodic exacerbations in the form of short-time acute paranoiac states; a combination of paranoiac delusion with stable phasic affective disorders; unusual possession of delusional patients expressed in bizarre delusional behaviour, etc.
(14) The bizarre feelings about the images of body and objects are called the 'Alice in Wonderland syndrome' due to the similarity with Alice's dreams.
(15) Although containing no obviously extreme items, its cumulative effect may be used to assess the prevalence of bizarre and eccentric thought patterns in psychiatric patients, and as an estimate of psychotic risk in the general population.
(16) In 1761, while still an apprentice surgeon, he made his discovery of the unique and bizarre cause--compression of the oesophagus by an aberrant right subclavian artery--of a fatal case of 'obstructed deglutition' for which he coined the term 'dysphagia lusoria' and for which he is eponymously remembered.
(17) The loss of vision, hearing, and speech, even on a temporary basis, may be responsible for strange, unpredictable, or bizarre behavior.
(18) Neu-Laxova syndrome is a rare form of congenital malformation characterized by intrauterine growth retardation, microcephaly with bizarre facial features, short neck, apparent edema, scaly skin, and perinatal death.
(19) David, the RSA manager, said the emergence of a communist relic as a 21st century security threat was a bizarre blast from the past.
(20) Clinical and demographic correlates of bizarre delusions were examined in subsets of patients diagnosed as schizophrenic according to DSM-III-R who also received CT scans and neuropsychological testing.
Unaccustomed
Definition:
(a.) Not used; not habituated; unfamiliar; unused; -- which to.
(a.) Not usual; uncommon; strange; new.
Example Sentences:
(1) Instead – plainly bewildering to some commentators – here is unaccustomed unity of purpose.
(2) Case reports illustrate the uniqueness of this perspective and its value in conveying new information to nonradiologist physicians who are unaccustomed to evaluating the numerous images of standard CT scans.
(3) For Hague, basking in unaccustomed praise for his "decisive action" in the Commons, this was the successful conclusion of a piece of unorthodox diplomacy – which subtly avoided the use of gunboats.
(4) Its author, Michael Kimmel , is not unaccustomed to stirring up strong responses.
(5) Eighty naval cadets, unaccustomed to sailing in heavy seas reported during voyages on the high seas, symptoms of seasickness every hour for 4 consecutive hours after ingestion of 1 g of the drug or placebo.
(6) Particularly vulnerable to placebo effect is the very self-sufficient individual with heavy responsibilities who is thrust into the unaccustomed dependency of disabling illness.
(7) Gwynfor's election as the first Plaid Cymru MP gave his party unaccustomed credibility and an enhanced public profile; it also established a pattern under which, when a Labour government was in office, Plaid provided the most threatening opposition in Wales.
(8) Providing the discounts demanded by PPOs thus poses unaccustomed and difficult problems for hospitals.
(9) But the most important thing is that our family has worked through it.” The release of the footage, first published by the celebrity news site TMZ, set off fevered speculation earlier this week among pop fans unaccustomed to hints of conflict in the superstar family.
(10) It is well documented in both animal and human studies that unaccustomed, particularly eccentric, muscle exercise may cause damage of muscle fiber contractile and cytoskeletal components.
(11) It is suggested that these differences were due to both a lack of manual dexterity when writing with the unaccustomed left hand and to the fact that different neurophysiological processes are involved.
(12) Among unaccustomed treatments for low back pain homeopathy matter given by injection has been joined with usual care.
(13) It’s extremely difficult in terms of having to cope with something she’s unaccustomed to,” Veveer said.
(14) Feeding readily fermentable carbohydrates to unaccustomed cattle predisposes to the disease.
(15) The hypoglycemia was not limited to patients in good or excellent metabolic control and often occurred after a single bout of exercise in patients unaccustomed to exercise or in athletic patients who were making the transition from an untrained to a trained state.
(16) These results suggest that the subjects were unaccustomed to RT, but maintained a positive mood state particularly when it was realized that performance capability was unaltered.
(17) The well-documented pattern of elevated serum enzyme activity (ESEA) data after a single bout of unaccustomed exercise can very easily be modeled using a biexponential curve.
(18) Business leaders desperately want to be wooed by Obama; they have spent an unaccustomed time wandering in the political cold as the financial crisis, recession and weak recovery weakened their negotiating position.
(19) Both patients also experienced episodes of increased weakness which could be brought on by unaccustomed activity, going without food or by taking small quantities of alcohol.
(20) The idea was to find a simplified system that any practitioner--even unaccustomed to microcomputing--would be able to use.