freakish
English
WOTD – 8 September 2015
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈfɹiːkɪʃ/
Audio (AU) (file) - Rhymes: -iːkɪʃ
Adjective
freakish (comparative more freakish, superlative most freakish)
- Resembling a freak.
- Strange, unusual, abnormal or bizarre.
- 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:
- 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.
- 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 October 2014:
- 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.
- Capricious, unpredictable.
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
resembling a freak
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strange, unusual
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