freakish
adjective
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Pronunciation: /ˈfɹiːkɪʃ/
adj
Etymology: Etymology tree English freak Proto-Indo-European *-iskos Proto-Germanic *-iskaz Proto-West Germanic *-isk Old English -isċ Middle English -ish English -ish English freakish From freak + -ish.
- Resembling a freak.
- 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.”
- Capricious, unpredictable.
“What freakish weather we are having lately in these parts.”