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freakish

adj
/ˈfɹiːkɪʃ/

Etymology

From freak + -ish.

  1. derived from *frekaz✻
  2. derived from *frek✻
  3. derived from frec — “desirous, greedy, eager, bold, daring”
  4. derived from frek — “insolent, daring”
  5. inherited from frīcian — “to leap, dance”
  6. inherited from friken
  7. suffixed as freakish — “freak + ish”

Definitions

  1. Resembling a freak.

  2. Strange, unusual, abnormal or bizarre.

    • It was a realy freakish accident that claimed many lives.
    • In all this series there is an almost freakish tendency toward the development of characters usually regarded as generic, as a result of which most of the genera have only one known species each.
    • This was arguably a more emphatic win than that Old Trafford thrashing, without the freakish element and simply the result of City's vast superiority in all areas.

  3. Capricious, unpredictable.

    • What freakish weather we are having lately in these parts.

The neighborhood

Derived

freakishly, freakishness, unfreakish

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for freakish. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA