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freakish

[ free-kish ]

adjective

  1. queer; odd; unusual; grotesque:

    a freakish appearance.

  2. whimsical; capricious:

    freakish behavior.



freakish

/ ˈfriːkɪʃ /

adjective

  1. of, related to, or characteristic of a freak; abnormal or unusual
  2. unpredictable or changeable

    freakish weather



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Derived Forms

  • ˈfreakishly, adverb
  • ˈfreakishness, noun

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Other Words From

  • freakish·ly adverb
  • freakish·ness noun
  • un·freakish adjective
  • un·freakish·ly adverb
  • un·freakish·ness noun

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Word History and Origins

Origin of freakish1

First recorded in 1645–55; freak 1 + -ish 1

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Example Sentences

Then there are those who have strong vocals, but have yet to ascend to massive career success or freakish mainstream popularity.

Carnival by Rawi Hage A cab driver roams an unnamed city as its rambling poet of the freakish and weird.

Reading Aftermath is like having a flashback to the freakish experience of living through your own death.

Luckily for other potential Taser victims, the makers of the device dubbed the incident “beyond freakish.”

The Daily Beast maps where the past month's freakish incidents have gone down.

Rosa was a spoiled, wayward child, freakish and mischievous, to whom liberty was too dear to be resigned without a sigh.

For it was already being borne in upon me that freakish chance had swept me into the orbit of the thing we spell Romance.

The face and head were freakish—monstrous; and yet, somehow, over it rested an expression of infinite wisdom and calm.

In aristocratic gatherings, the freakish whims of the almost forgotten Nadina Lubimoff were brought to memory and discussed again.

For weeks now his life had been in ferment, his moods as freakish as the wind.

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