freakish

freak·ish

adjective \ˈfrē-kish\

Definition of FREAKISH

1

: whimsical, capricious

2

: markedly strange or abnormal <freakish appearance>

— freak·ish·ly adverb

— freak·ish·ness noun

Examples of FREAKISH

1. a freakish twist of fate
2. <had a freakish roommate in college who once decided to drive all the way to Canada on the spur of the moment>

First Known Use of FREAKISH

1653

Related to FREAKISH

Synonyms

capricious, whimsical, impulsive

Related Words

impetuous, mercurial, moody, temperamental, volatile; crankish, eccentric, flaky, quirky; arbitrary, erratic, fickle, inconstant, irregular, shaky, willful (or wilful); impractical, quixotic, quixotical, romantic, unrealistic, utopian, visionary

Near Antonyms

equable; down-to-earth, earthy, hard-boiled, hardheaded, levelheaded, matter-of-fact, practical, pragmatic (also pragmatical), reasonable, sensible, tough-minded; commonsensical, grounded, logical, no-nonsense, rational, sane, sober, sobersided, sound; fast, fixed, hard-and-fast, immutable, inflexible, invariable, unalterable, unbending, unchangeable uncompromising, unrelenting, unyielding; changeless, constant, established, set, settled, stable, steadfast, steady, unchanging, unvarying

Rhymes with FREAKISH

weakish