freakish

freakish
Synonyms and related words:
abnormal, adrift, afloat, alternating, amorphous, anomalous, arbitrary, baroque, bizarre, capricious, changeable, changeful, crank, crankish, cranky, crotchety, deformed, desultory, deviable, deviant, deviative, different, divergent, dizzy, dotty, eccentric, erratic, exceptional, fanciful, fantasied, fantastic, fast and loose, fey, fickle, fitful, flaky, flickering, flighty, flitting, fluctuating, freak, funny, giddy, grotesque, harebrained, humorsome, idiocratic, idiosyncratic, impetuous, impulsive, inconsistent, inconstant, indecisive, infirm, irregular, irresolute, irresponsible, kinky, kooky, maggoty, malformed, mazy, mercurial, misbegotten, misshapen, monstrous, moody, motiveless, notional, nutty, odd, oddball, peculiar, petulant, queer, quirky, rambling, restless, rococo, roving, scatterbrained, screwball, screwy, shapeless, shifting, shifty, shuffling, singular, spasmodic, spineless, strange, temperamental, teratogenic, teratoid, twisted, unaccountable, uncertain, uncontrolled, unconventional, undependable, undisciplined, unfixed, unnatural, unpredictable, unreasonable, unreliable, unrestrained, unsettled, unstable, unstable as water, unstaid, unsteadfast, unsteady, vacillating, vagarious, vagrant, variable, vicissitudinary, vicissitudinous, volatile, wacky, wandering, wanton, wavering, wavery, wavy, wayward, whimsical, wishy-washy

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  • Freakish — Freak ish, a. Apt to change the mind suddenly; whimsical; capricious. [1913 Webster] It may be a question whether the wife or the woman was the more freakish of the two. L Estrange. [1913 Webster] Freakish when well, and fretful when she s sick.… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • freakish — index irregular (not usual), prodigious (amazing), unaccustomed Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …   Law dictionary

  • freakish — 1650s, capricious, from FREAK (Cf. freak) + ISH (Cf. ish). Related: Freakishly; freakishness. Meaning grotesque is recorded from 1805 …   Etymology dictionary

  • freakish — [adj] abnormal, unusual aberrant, arbitrary, bizarre, capricious, crazy, erratic, fantastic, far out, freaky, grotesque, malformed, monstrous, odd, outlandish, outré, preternatural, queer, strange, unconventional, vagarious, wayward, weird,… …   New thesaurus

  • freakish — [frēk′ish] adj. 1. full of or characterized by freaks; whimsical; capricious 2. having the nature of a freak; odd; queer freakishly adv. freakishness n …   English World dictionary

  • freakish — freakishly, adv. freakishness, n. /free kish/, adj. 1. queer; odd; unusual; grotesque: a freakish appearance. 2. whimsical; capricious: freakish behavior. [1645 55; FREAK1 + ISH1] * * * …   Universalium

  • freakish — [[t]fri͟ːkɪʃ[/t]] ADJ GRADED: usu ADJ n Something that is freakish is remarkable because it is not normal or natural. ...his freakish voice varying from bass to soprano …   English dictionary

  • freakish — UK [ˈfriːkɪʃ] / US [ˈfrɪkɪʃ] adjective not normal or natural a freakish sense of humour freakish weather …   English dictionary

  • freakish — freak•ish [[t]ˈfri kɪʃ[/t]] adj. 1) unusual; odd; grotesque: a freakish appearance[/ex] 2) whimsical; capricious: freakish changes[/ex] • Etymology: 1645–55 freak′ish•ly, adv. freak′ish•ness, n …   From formal English to slang

  • freakish — adjective Date: 1653 1. whimsical, capricious 2. markedly strange or abnormal < freakish appearance > • freakishly adverb • freakishness noun …   New Collegiate Dictionary

  • freakish — freak|ish [ˈfri:kıʃ] adj very unusual and strange, and sometimes frightening = ↑weird ▪ freakish weather >freakishly adv >freakishness n [U] …   Dictionary of contemporary English

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