Meanings
comparative more freakish · superlative most freakish
- Resembling a freak.
- Strange, unusual, abnormal or bizarre.
It was a realy freakish accident that claimed many lives.
2 more examples
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.
1926, John Merton Aldrich, “Notes on Muscoid Flies with Retracted Hind Crossvein, with Key and Several New Genera and Species”, in Transactions of the American Entomological Society, volume 52, number 1, →JSTOR, pages 7–28This 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.
2013 September 22, Phil McNulty, “Man City 4–1 Man Utd”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), BBC Sport, archived from the original on 22 Oct 2014 - Capricious, unpredictable.
What freakish weather we are having lately in these parts.
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectivechangeable
adjectiveconspicuously or grossly unconventional or unusual
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*preg-
- Proto-Germanic*frekaz
- Proto-Germanic*frekōną
- Proto-West Germanic*frekōn
- Old Englishfrician?
- Old Englishfrīcian
- Middle Englishfriken?
- Proto-Germanic*frekaz
- Proto-West Germanic*frek
- Old Englishfrec
- Englishfrekder.?
- Englishfreak
- Englishfreakish
Translations
Bulgarian странен, необичаен
- странен (stranen)strange, unusual
- необичаен (neobičaen)strange, unusual
Dutch buitenissig
- buitenissigresembling a freak
Finnish kummallinen, kummallinen
- kummallinenresembling a freak
- kummallinenstrange, unusual
German freakig, freakig
- freakigresembling a freak
- freakigstrange, unusual
Hungarian bizarr, furcsa
- bizarrstrange, unusual
- furcsastrange, unusual
- groteszkstrange, unusual
- különösstrange, unusual
Italian bizzarro
- bizzarroresembling a freak
Swedish bisarr, underlig
- bisarrresembling a freak
- underligstrange, unusual
Turkish ucubik
- ucubikresembling a freak
Rhymes & wordplay
Rhymes with freakish
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freakish. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/freakish
“freakish.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/freakish. Accessed November 2, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “freakish,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/freakish.
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