FREAKISHLY Synonyms: 68 Similar and Opposite Words

freakishly

adverb

as in unusually

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Recent Examples of freakishly But the majority of students have been peaceful, and many come off in interviews as almost freakishly mature. — Lauren Collins, New Yorker, 9 Oct. 2026 Although the city, bound by a freakishly heavy snowfall and bitter cold, was hard to traverse, Dylan, now with plenty of time on his hands, got around. — Sean Wilentz, Rolling Stone, 6 Oct. 2026 Even Cyrus’ freakishly long nails and eerie voice are derivative of other horror movie boogeymen, but without their grasp of the uncannily malevolent. — Los Angeles Times, 21 Aug. 2026 The New Jersey Devils’ pipeline is highlighted by the massive, freakishly athletic Anton Silayev on the blue line. — Corey Pronman, New York Times, 18 Aug. 2026 Tonight, the New York Knicks won their first NBA title in 53 years over Victor Wembanyama, the most freakishly-gifted basketball player maybe ever. — Marlow Stern, Variety, 14 June 2026 Shot mostly in the Canary Islands with the region’s searing, glaring Tropic-of-Cancer-adjacent light, freakishly black, volcanic soil and groovy mid-century-modernist buildings, the film suggests a future where the worst climactic disasters have been avoided. — Leslie Felperin, HollywoodReporter, 24 May 2026 Others are luminously, freakishly beautiful, in ways that seem designed to appeal to beings from other solar systems. — Rosa Lyster, The New York Review of Books, 25 Apr. 2026 Boston and Oklahoma City played high-level D and were freakishly athletic. — Troy Renck, Denver Post, 25 Apr. 2026

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The company is moving through federal safety reviews at an unusually rapid pace.

— Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 24 Oct. 2026
Jonathan Van Meter, the legendary magazine writer and editor, has spent much of his career getting unusually close to famous women.

— Maer Roshan, HollywoodReporter, 23 Oct. 2026

Definition of unusually

Adverb

No bigger than a microwave oven, Idefix will plop onto Phobos by itself, bouncing for several minutes before coming to a halt in the moon's extraordinarily low gravity.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 21 Oct. 2026
The territory’s population boomed and quickly turned the distant region into an extraordinarily valuable part of the United States.

— Monitor reviewers, Christian Science Monitor, 19 Oct. 2026

Definition of extraordinarily

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This can lead to a potentially serious condition called hypermagnesemia, where blood magnesium levels are abnormally high.

— MD Published, Verywell Health, 14 Oct. 2026
On Wednesday, temperatures will still remain abnormally high, although fewer records are expected to fall than in days past.

— Austin Turner, CBS News, 7 Oct. 2026

Definition of abnormally

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Fixes for what are believed to be uncommonly severe vulnerabilities are scheduled to drop in a little more than 12 hours for PHP, a programming language that powers websites and Web applications everywhere.

— Dan Goodin, ArsTechnica, 21 Oct. 2026
Neither starter excelled on a tense, uncommonly hot October night in downtown San Diego.

— ABC News, ABC News, 7 Oct. 2026

Definition of uncommonly

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After recent seasons of attempting to singularly lift the Milwaukee Bucks, Antetokounmpo found himself not only again in the midst of heavy lifting, but this time also second best on the court.

— Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 21 Oct. 2026
That the university is prepared to sacrifice a vital cultural resource in order to save a relatively small amount of money strikes me — and others as singularly short-sighted and ill-advised.

— Chicago Tribune, Chicago Tribune, 18 Oct. 2026

Definition of singularly

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Some wondered whether Schrödinger’s equation might be an approximation that works extremely well at the microscopic scale but breaks down at the macroscopic scale, which would mean the measurement postulate of the Copenhagen interpretation is right.

— Philipp Strasberg, Scientific American, 20 Oct. 2026
In the meantime, no one should refrain from using sunscreen, which is extremely well-proven to cause cancer.

— Tracy Middleton, Allure, 19 Oct. 2026

Definition of extremely

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While these issues can be addressed, the costs can be incredibly high, and under Florida law, developers are only on the hook for anything identified within the first seven years after a building is handed over to the homeowners association.

— Denise Hruby, Miami Herald, 19 Oct. 2026
The pre-selection debates about three- or four-loss SEC squads and some team no one actually watches will prove incredibly tiresome, too.

— Tyler Estep, AJC.com, 19 Oct. 2026

Definition of incredibly

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Open-weight models would generally be exempt, but Beijing could still restrict transfers involving exceptionally large or top-performing models, potentially limiting overseas acquisitions or the movement of key personnel and intellectual property.

— Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 20 Oct. 2026
The video circulated widely as another example of an exceptionally long battlefield engagement.

— Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 20 Oct. 2026

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