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freakish

/ˈfɹiːkɪʃ/

freakish adjective: resembling a freak.

Adjective

freakish (comparative more freakish, superlative most freakish)

  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...
  3. Capricious, unpredictable.
    • What freakish weather we are having lately in these parts.

freakish meaning in Tamil and Malayalam

freakish in Tamil

இயல் பற்ற, செயற்கையான, மனம்போன போக்குடைய

freakish in Malayalam

freak, aberrant, unusual
അസാധാരണവും വിചിത്രവുമായ, സാധാരണമല്ലാത്ത, പതിവില്ലാത്ത, ക്രമരഹിതമായ, ക്രമക്കേടായ, അനിയമിതമായ

Forms of freakish

comparativemore freakish
superlativemost freakish

Origin of freakish

From freak + -ish.

Words formed from freakish

Words that rhyme with freakish

Questions about freakish

What does freakish mean?
Freakish means resembling a freak.
What is freakish in Tamil?
Freakish in Tamil is இயல் பற்ற, செயற்கையான, மனம்போன போக்குடைய. See Freakish meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is freakish?
Freakish is an adjective.
How do you pronounce freakish?
Freakish is pronounced /ˈfɹiːkɪʃ/.

Words near freakish in the dictionary

  1. freaking
  2. freaking gosh
  3. freaking off
  4. freaking out
  5. freakings
  6. freakish
  7. freakishly
  8. freakishness
  9. freakishnesses
  10. freakism
  11. freakjob

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: freakish (page history and authors); freakish (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); freakish (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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