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freakish en · ADJ

Pronunciation

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• /ˈfɹiːkɪʃ/

Etymology

Etymology tree English freak Proto-Indo-European *-iskos Proto-Germanic *-iskaz Proto-West Germanic *-isk Old English -isċ Middle English -isch English -ish English freakish From freak + -ish.

Meanings

1. Resembling a freak.
2. 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. 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 7–28:
   • This 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:
3. Capricious, unpredictable.
   • What freakish weather we are having lately in these parts.

Forms

Deriveds

freakishness · unfreakish · freakishly

Relateds

freaky

Translations (15)

hu furcsa (strange, unusual) · nl buitenissig (resembling a freak) · bg странен (strange, unusual) · hu bizarr (strange, unusual) · it bizzarro (resembling a freak) · de freakig (strange, unusual) · hu különös (strange, unusual) · sv underlig (strange, unusual) · fi kummallinen (resembling a freak) · sv bisarr (resembling a freak) · bg необичаен (strange, unusual) · hu groteszk (strange, unusual) · de freakig (resembling a freak) · fi kummallinen (strange, unusual) · tr ucubik (resembling a freak)