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freakish
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective freakish has 3 senses
- freakish(s = adj.all) capricious - changeable; "a capricious summer breeze"; "freakish weather" Derived form noun freakishness1
- freakish(s = adj.all) Array - characteristic of a freak; "a freakish extra toe" Derived form noun freakishness1
- freakish(s = adj.all) bizarre, eccentric, flakey, flaky, freaky, gonzo, off-the-wall, outlandish, outre - conspicuously or grossly unconventional or unusual; "restaurants of bizarre design--one like a hat, another like a rabbit"; "famed for his eccentric spelling"; "a freakish combination of styles"; "his off-the-wall antics"; "the outlandish clothes of teenagers"; "outre and affected stage antics" Derived form noun freakishness1
CIDE DICTIONARY
freakish, 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." [1913 Webster]"Freakish when well, and fretful when she's sick."
- rapidly changing and unpredictable; as, freakish weather. [PJC]
- markedly abnormal. [PJC]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
freakish, adj.
1 of or like a freak.
2 bizarre, unconventional.
1 of or like a freak.
2 bizarre, unconventional.
Derivative
freakishly adv. freakishness n.
THESAURUS
freakish
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-washyROGET THESAURUS
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Caprice
N caprice, fancy, humor, whim, whimsy, whimsey, whimwham, crotchet, capriccio, quirk, freak, maggot, fad, vagary, prank, fit, flimflam, escapade, boutade, wild-goose chase, capriciousness, kink, capricious, erratic, eccentric, fitful, hysterical, full of whims, maggoty, inconsistent, fanciful, fantastic, whimsical, crotchety, kinky, particular, humorsome, freakish, skittish, wanton, wayward, contrary, captious, arbitrary, unconformable, penny wise and pound foolish, fickle, frivolous, sleeveless, giddy, volatile, by fits and starts, without rhyme or reason, nil fuit unquain sic inipar sibi, the deuce is in him.
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