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adjectivequeer; odd; unusual; grotesque: a freakish appearance. whimsical; capricious: freakish behavior. Origin of freakishFirst recorded in 1645–55; freak1 + -ish1 OTHER WORDS FROM freakishfreak·ish·ly, adverbfreak·ish·ness, nounun·freak·ish, adjectiveun·freak·ish·ly, adverb un·freak·ish·ness, noun Words nearby freakishF.R.C.P., F.R.C.S., FRCVS, freak, freaking, freakish, freak of nature, freak-out, freak show, freaky, Fréchet Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for freakishThen there are those who have strong vocals, but have yet to ascend to massive career success or freakish mainstream popularity. Mariah Carey Is the Last of the Traditional Divas|Phoebe Robinson|May 29, 2014|DAILY BEAST Carnival by Rawi Hage A cab driver roams an unnamed city as its rambling poet of the freakish and weird. This Week’s Hot Reads: June 10, 2013|Mythili Rao|June 10, 2013|DAILY BEAST Reading Aftermath is like having a flashback to the freakish experience of living through your own death. If You Read This Book, You Will Not Get Married|Melissa Holbrook Pierson|August 11, 2012|DAILY BEAST The Daily Beast maps where the past month's freakish incidents have gone down. Map: Signs of the Zombie Apocalypse?|Sam Schlinkert|May 31, 2012|DAILY BEAST
But lately, some fashion mavens and movie stars have cast the diet as freakish even by their often neurotic standards. The Crazy Baby Food Diet|Gina Piccalo|September 22, 2010|DAILY BEAST By some mischance, one of the willows bordering the pool grew at a freakish angle. The Duck-footed Hound|James Arthur Kjelgaard But when freakish tropes take the place of poetry then we ought to rebel. The Literature of Ecstasy|Albert Mordell "Oh, I don't know about its being so freakish," said Average Jones. Average Jones|Samuel Hopkins Adams Nature seems to have made the goby in one of her most freakish moods. The Seven Great Monarchies Of The Ancient Eastern World, Vol 1. (of 7): Chaldaea|George Rawlinson Under the influence of some freakish impulse, Pomp suddenly jumped to his feet and, whirling his arms aloft, uttered a wild whoop. Frank's Campaign|Horatio Alger, Jr.
British Dictionary definitions for freakish
adjectiveof, related to, or characteristic of a freak; abnormal or unusual unpredictable or changeablefreakish weather Derived forms of freakishfreakishly, adverbfreakishness, nounCollins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Words related to freakishunconventional, freaky, grotesque, aberrant, strange, bizarre, odd, weird, arbitrary, capricious, crazy, erratic, fantastic, far-out, malformed, monstrous, outlandish, preternatural, queer, wayward |