Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Markedly unusual or abnormal; strange.
  • adjective Relating to or being a freak.
  • adjective Capricious or whimsical.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Addicted to freaks; resulting from or caused by a freak; capricious; whimsical; fantastic.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Apt to change the mind suddenly; whimsical; capricious.
  • adjective rapidly changing and unpredictable.
  • adjective markedly abnormal.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective resembling a freak
  • adjective strange, unusual, abnormal or bizarre
  • adjective capricious or unpredictable

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective conspicuously or grossly unconventional or unusual
  • adjective changeable
  • adjective characteristic of a freak

Etymologies

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

freak +‎ -ish

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Examples

  • The only honest information would have been that about 97 percent of the world’s relevant scientists overwhelming agree that climate change couldn’t be more real and is a genuine danger to humanity and the planet -- and that the evidence is all around us in freakish weather, rising oceans, melting arctic ice and glaciers, shifting habitats, and more.

    Rebecca Solnit: Jurassic Ballot: When Corporations Ruled the Earthrop 23 Rebecca Solnit 2010

  • The only honest information would have been that about 97 percent of the world’s relevant scientists overwhelming agree that climate change couldn’t be more real and is a genuine danger to humanity and the planet -- and that the evidence is all around us in freakish weather, rising oceans, melting arctic ice and glaciers, shifting habitats, and more.

    Rebecca Solnit: Jurassic Ballot: When Corporations Ruled the Earthrop 23 Rebecca Solnit 2010

  • The only honest information would have been that about 97 percent of the world’s relevant scientists overwhelming agree that climate change couldn’t be more real and is a genuine danger to humanity and the planet -- and that the evidence is all around us in freakish weather, rising oceans, melting arctic ice and glaciers, shifting habitats, and more.

    Rebecca Solnit: Jurassic Ballot: When Corporations Ruled the Earthrop 23 Rebecca Solnit 2010

  • Most of them look severely constipated or just plain freakish.

    Joss Whedon Shuts Down Dollhouse Production for Two Weeks | /Film 2008

  • What could only be described as a freakish deflection not only took it the six yards to Dida's goal, but right in the bottom corner, giving the Brazilian no chance of keeping it out.

    TEAMtalk Football News 2010

  • What could only be described as a freakish deflection not only took it the six yards to Dida's goal, but right in the bottom corner, giving the Brazilian no chance of keeping it out.

    icLiverpool 2010

  • What could only be described as a freakish deflection not only took it the six yards to Dida's goal, but right in the bottom corner, giving the Brazilian no chance of keeping it out.

    icLiverpool 2010

  • What could only be described as a freakish deflection not only took it the six yards to Dida's goal, but right in the bottom corner, giving the Brazilian no chance of keeping it out.

    Sportal.com.au - Latest News Headlines 2010

  • For me he looks freakish, which is worrying because he just doesnt have the face for a leading role?

    All - Digital Spy - Entertainment and Media News 2009

  • Worn with drop-crotch jeans, a fedora, striped socks, a print blouse, oversized reading glasses, crocheted slippers, layers of crystals and Indian beads and a red Mongolian fur, the Birkin becomes an extension of her, authentic and "freakish" and proud of it.

    Elisa Goodkind and Lily Mandelbaum: Fashion Stylist Lori Goldstein Discusses The Contents Of Her Closet (PHOTOS, VIDEO) Elisa Goodkind 2010

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