Freakish

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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] -- {Freak"ish*ly}, adv. -- {Freak"ish*ness}, n.
          [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  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}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  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