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freakish

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freak·ish  (frksh)
adj.
1. Markedly unusual or abnormal; strange: freakish weather; a freakish combination of styles.
2. Relating to or being a freak: a freakish extra toe.
3. Capricious or whimsical.

freakish·ly adv.
freakish·ness n.

freakish [ˈfriːkɪʃ]
adj
1. of, related to, or characteristic of a freak; abnormal or unusual
2. unpredictable or changeable freakish weather
freakishly  adv
freakishness  n
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Adj.1.freakish - changeable; "a capricious summer breeze"; "freakish weather"
unpredictable - not capable of being foretold
2.freakish - characteristic of a freak; "a freakish extra toe"
abnormal, unnatural - not normal; not typical or usual or regular or conforming to a norm; "abnormal powers of concentration"; "abnormal amounts of rain"; "abnormal circumstances"; "an abnormal interest in food"
3.freakish - 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"
unconventional - not conventional or conformist; "unconventional life styles"

freakish
adjective
1. odd, strange, fantastic, weird, abnormal, monstrous, grotesque, unnatural, unconventional, outlandish, freaky (slang), aberrant, outré, malformed, preternatural, teratoid (Biology) a freakish monstrous thing, something out of a dream
2. whimsical, odd, unpredictable, arbitrary, humorous, erratic, wayward, fanciful, capricious, changeable, fitful, vagarious (rare) a freakish, extraordinary incident
Translations
freakish [ˈfriːkɪʃ] ADJ
1. [appearance] → extravagante; [result] → inesperado
2. (= changeable) [moods, weather] → variable, caprichoso
freakish [ˈfriːkɪʃ] adjinsolite, anormal(e)
freakish
adj
? freak ADJ
(= changeable) weatherverrückt (inf), → launisch, unberechenbar; personausgeflippt (inf); hairstyle, ideaverrückt (inf), → irre (inf)
freakish [ˈfriːkɪʃ] adj (result, appearance) → strano/a, bizzarro/a; (moods) → capriccioso/a; (weather) → anormale
freakish [ˈfriːkɪʃ] adj (result, appearance) → strano/a, bizzarro/a; (moods) → capriccioso/a; (weather) → anormale


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He was very unorthodox, which frightened them; and his freakish humour excited their disapproval.
Almost all electricians--the men who were supposed to know--pronounced the telephone an impossible thing; and those who did not openly declare it to be a hoax, believed that Bell had stumbled upon some freakish use of electricity, which could never be of any practical value.
Once this freakish, elvish cast came into the child's eyes while Hester was looking at her own image in them, as mothers are food of doing; and suddenly for women in solitude, and with troubled hearts, are pestered with unaccountable delusions she fancied that she beheld, not her own miniature portrait, but another face in the small black mirror of Pearl's eye.
 
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