[ UK /fɹˈiːkɪʃ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. changeable
    freakish weather
    a capricious summer breeze
  2. conspicuously or grossly unconventional or unusual
    restaurants of bizarre design--one like a hat, another like a rabbit
    famed for his eccentric spelling
    outre and affected stage antics
    his off-the-wall antics
    the outlandish clothes of teenagers
    a freakish combination of styles
  3. characteristic of a freak
    a freakish extra toe
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How To Use freakish In A Sentence

  • Surely, something freakish would happen—a slow roller through the wickets, some fluke fly ball barely clearing the Green Monster, a sure groundout bouncing crazily around the infield—something confirming the Sox impending doom usually happened right about now. One Season
  • All his classmates find him freakish, except when they're in the gym showers together.
  • It means that mourners feel especially freakish and isolated, often even unentitled to speak of their misery. Times, Sunday Times
  • It would be a mistake to dismiss the Satanic panic as a freakish aberrance, however.
  • There is something freakish about the calm. Times, Sunday Times
  • 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
  • Now and again a long, black shadow would sail slowly over the scene of freakish life -- the shadow of a passing albacore or barracouta. Kings in Exile
  • freakish weather
  • Genetic engineering is often seen as something freakish and hazardous, as meddling with nature. Times, Sunday Times
  • The wintry weather took on freakish proportions with torrential rain turning to sideways sleet as the blustery wind continued to create havoc.
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