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单词 freakishness
释义

freakish

adjective

freak·​ish ˈfrē-kish How to pronounce freakish (audio)
1
: whimsical, capricious
2
: markedly strange or abnormal
freakish appearance
freakishly adverb
freakishness noun

Synonyms

  • capricious
  • impulsive
  • whimsical
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Example Sentences

a freakish twist of fate had a freakish roommate in college who once decided to drive all the way to Canada on the spur of the moment
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Word History

First Known Use

1653, in the meaning defined at sense 1

freakishness

noun

as in impulsiveness
an inclination to sudden illogical changes of mind, ideas, or actions though some mistook his freakishness for mental illness, it was just a quirk of his personality and nothing more

Synonyms & Similar Words

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  • impulsiveness
  • capriciousness
  • whimsicality
  • eccentricity
  • unpredictability
  • whimsicalness
  • arbitrariness
  • variableness
  • willfulness
  • fickleness
  • flexibility
  • flakiness
  • variability
  • caprice
  • volatility
  • mutability
  • changeability
  • irregularity
  • moodiness
  • mercurialness
  • volatileness
  • inconstancy

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

  • practicality
  • reasonableness
  • inflexibility
  • invariability
  • reasonability
  • fixedness
  • levelheadedness
  • immutability
  • firmness
  • immovability
  • changelessness
  • stability
  • steadiness
  • fastness
  • steadfastness
  • constancy
  • immovableness
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