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Far from ordinary
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freakish
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. changeable; "a capricious summer breeze"; "freakish weather" [syn: capricious ] characteristic of a freak; "a freakish extra toe" conspicuously or grossly unconventional or unusual; "restaurants of bizarre design--one like a hat, another like a rabbit"; ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ One of the characters is Sheeva, a freakish eight-foot-tall woman with four arms. EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Disproportionalities can sometimes appear almost freakish . ▪ I was just a kid who had done a freakish thing. ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. 1 resembling a freak 2 strange, unusual, abnormal or bizarre 3 capricious or unpredictable
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Freakish \Freak"ish\, a. Apt to change the mind suddenly; whimsical; capricious. It may be a question whether the wife or the woman was the more freakish of the two. --L'Estrange. Freakish when well, and fretful when she's sick. --Pope. 2. rapidly ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1650s, "capricious," from freak (n.) + -ish . Meaning "grotesque" is recorded from 1805. Related: Freakishly ; freakishness . Keats has freakful .
Usage examples of freakish.
Empress is wooing the nobles as well as she can, by introducing them to the Aberrant child so that they may see she is not deformed or freakish.
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For Minks hung upon the fringe of that very modern, new-fashioned, but almost freakish army that worships old, old ideals, yet insists upon new-fangled names for them.
Canopy transmuted into something very different: a jumbled agglomeration of freakish crystalline shapes, like something magnified from a geology textbook, or a photomicrograph of a fantastically adapted virus.
Somehow Heidi Stolpe was the freakish sister to the hundreds of Aryan males mass-produced by IV more than thirty years before.
Why would random individuals from a totally different species that evolved three hundred light-years away have such a freakish understanding of a ritual that the greatest linguists and behaviorists of a dozen other sentient species were still unable to parse?
The storm was even more freakish than that which had given Manhattan a blizzardy taste of winter in July.
And now that it was bright on their ground-screens they began talking of how the irradiated plants and flowers had had a freakish beauty, and one of the other womeneither Rinka or Hollywas describing what it had done to the columbines and bloodroot and wild asters, the walnut trees and the dogwoods.
But even more freakish was the vicious brawl going on between the children.
There were stunted midgets like Minikin and freakish giants like Trog, milk-skinned albinos and dwarves with heads too large for their diminutive bodies.
Somehow, one of the belters had managed to get into a pressure suit and, through some freakish piece of luck, must have been blasted clear.
In the dim, flickering light, the blackhearts, their ugly opaque forms trembling as if in a state of excitation, had a freakish, evil look, and as they drifted closer to Espinal, despite my hatred, I felt a twinge of sympathy for the man.
Some freakish ocean current just opened a channel through the ice floes, and if we hurry, we should be able to get through before it closes up again.
Beauty may always be a little bit freakish, but the year I turned thirteen I was becoming freakier than ever.