Synonyms for freakish


Grammar : Adj
Spell : free-kish
Phonetic Transcription : ˈfri kɪʃ

Top 10 synonyms for freakish Other synonyms for the word freakish

Définition of freakish

Origin :
  • 1650s, "capricious," from freak (n.) + -ish. Meaning "grotesque" is recorded from 1805. Related: Freakishly; freakishness.
  • adj abnormal, unusual
Example sentences :
  • That is why we feel that Freak Dinners would not even be freakish.
  • Extract from : « Alarms and Discursions » by G. K. Chesterton
  • His horse plunged, freakish from his long rest in the stable.
  • Extract from : « The Man Who Wins » by Robert Herrick
  • But on the other side, de la Cloche was freakish and unsettled.
  • Extract from : « The Valet's Tragedy and Other Stories » by Andrew Lang
  • I got a picture of a nubile waif, too freakish to fit where she'd been raised.
  • Extract from : « Vigorish » by Gordon Randall Garrett
  • I may have classed it as a freakish pedantry, the result of an unprecedented memory.
  • Extract from : « The Wonder » by J. D. Beresford
  • Being a woman and having no outlet for her energies, she is freakish.
  • Extract from : « Mistress Anne » by Temple Bailey
  • All the freakish spirits of the air were a-loose in the wind.
  • Extract from : « 'way Down In Lonesome Cove » by Charles Egbert Craddock (AKA Mary Noailles Murfree)
  • Her manners are generally good; freakish, but good in the main.
  • Extract from : « The Tragic Comedians, Complete » by George Meredith
  • He had no freakish notions that things were so, or might be so, when they were not so.
  • Extract from : « Recollections of the Civil War » by Charles A. Dana
  • When religion or vanity, or a compound of both, is freakish, it is very freakish.
  • Extract from : « Nasby in Exile » by David R. Locke

Antonyms for freakish

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