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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Freakish \Freak"ish\, adjective Apt to change the mind suddenly; whimsical; capricious.
It may be a question whether the wife or the woman was the more freakish of the two. --L'Estrange.
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}, adverb -- {Freak"ish*ness}, noun
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
freakish
adjective
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
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