Freakish \Freak"ish\, a.
Apt to change the mind suddenly; whimsical; capricious.
[1913 Webster]
It may be a question whether the wife or the woman was
the more freakish of the two. --L'Estrange.
[1913 Webster]
Freakish when well, and fretful when she's sick.
--Pope.
2. rapidly changing and unpredictable; as, freakish weather.
[PJC]
3. markedly abnormal.
Syn: freaky.
[PJC] --
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
freakish
adj 1: changeable; "a capricious summer breeze"; "freakish weather"
[syn: capricious]
2: characteristic of a freak; "a freakish extra toe"
3: 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" [syn: bizarre, eccentric, freaky,
flaky, off-the-wall, outlandish, outre]
WordNet (r) 2.0
129 Moby Thesaurus words for "freakish":
abnormal, adrift, afloat, alternating, amorphous, anomalous,
arbitrary, baroque, bizarre, capricious, changeable, changeful,
crank, crankish, cranky, crotchety, deformed, desultory, deviable,
deviant, deviative, different, divergent, dizzy, dotty, eccentric,
erratic, exceptional, fanciful, fantasied, fantastic,
fast and loose, fey, fickle, fitful, flaky, flickering, flighty,
flitting, fluctuating, freak, funny, giddy, grotesque, harebrained,
humorsome, idiocratic, idiosyncratic, impetuous, impulsive,
inconsistent, inconstant, indecisive, infirm, irregular,
irresolute, irresponsible, kinky, kooky, maggoty, malformed, mazy,
mercurial, misbegotten, misshapen, monstrous, moody, motiveless,
notional, nutty, odd, oddball, peculiar, petulant, queer, quirky,
rambling, restless, rococo, roving, scatterbrained, screwball,
screwy, shapeless, shifting, shifty, shuffling, singular,
spasmodic, spineless, strange, temperamental, teratogenic,
teratoid, twisted, unaccountable, uncertain, uncontrolled,
unconventional, undependable, undisciplined, unfixed, unnatural,
unpredictable, unreasonable, unreliable, unrestrained, unsettled,
unstable, unstable as water, unstaid, unsteadfast, unsteady,
vacillating, vagarious, vagrant, variable, vicissitudinary,
vicissitudinous, volatile, wacky, wandering, wanton, wavering,
wavery, wavy, wayward, whimsical, wishy-washy
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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