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freakishly

adverb

as in unusually

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Recent Examples of freakishly 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 The story still lays there on the table, limp as a corpse, but freakishly still twitching. — Jd Barker, Rolling Stone, 25 Mar. 2026 The Frankenstein actor looked freakishly handsome in a custom tuxedo and vest, cotton poplin shirt, bow tie from Bottega Veneta. — Kevin Huynh, InStyle, 16 Mar. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for freakishly
  1. unusually
  2. extraordinarily
  3. abnormally
  4. uncommonly
  5. singularly
  6. extremely
  7. incredibly
  8. exceptionally
Adverb
  • Phetchaburi Road, one of the capital’s busiest, was unusually quiet as vehicles were turned back by high water.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 26 Sep. 2026
  • The storm produced strong changes in Earth’s magnetic environment and pushed auroras to unusually low latitudes.
    — Sujita Sinha, Interesting Engineering, 25 Sep. 2026
Definition of unusually
Adverb
  • Insurers routinely cover extraordinarily expensive drugs with modest benefit.
    — Lorenzo Cohen, STAT, 22 Sep. 2026
  • With near-instant responses, generative AI can feel extraordinarily insightful.
    — Morgan Shipley, The Conversation, 21 Sep. 2026
Definition of extraordinarily
Adverb
  • As of Thursday, abnormally dry conditions stretched across portions of Northern California, the Central Valley, the Sierra Nevada and Southern California.
    — Sacbee.com, Sacbee.com, 24 Sep. 2026
  • This would further ease ongoing abnormally dry and moderate drought conditions across our region.
    — Steven Sosna, CBS News, 21 Sep. 2026
Definition of abnormally
Adverb
  • This uncommonly thoughtful Jason Statham vehicle is based on a real 1971 heist.
    — Declan Gallagher, Entertainment Weekly, 3 Sep. 2026
  • Some have already noted the uncommonly high demand for PV5 campers and alluded to early plans to bring the PV7 into the fold.
    — New Atlas, New Atlas, 2 Sep. 2026
Definition of uncommonly
Adverb
  • Georgia doesn’t have someone as singularly gifted as Bowers in this tight end room.
    — Connor Riley, AJC.com, 10 Sep. 2026
  • The New York Democrat is singularly focused on winning back control of the House.
    — Lisa Mascaro, Los Angeles Times, 3 Sep. 2026
Definition of singularly
Adverb
  • The romance genre is extremely popular on the publishing side with massive engaged fan bases, and buyers on the film and TV side recognize the potential for that to translate to the screen.
    — Lexy Perez, HollywoodReporter, 21 Sep. 2026
  • Earthquakes and bradyseisms are very rare; the continents move extremely slowly.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 21 Sep. 2026
Definition of extremely
Adverb
  • Moments after an incredibly warm greeting, Quinn shoveled coal into the flames and stuck an iron in the forge.
    — Sarah Wood González, Condé Nast Traveler, 21 Sep. 2026
  • Teach them that an answer can sound incredibly confident and still be wrong.
    — Dr. Edith Bracho-Sanchez, CNN Money, 21 Sep. 2026
Definition of incredibly
Adverb
  • This is yet another signal that this year will see an exceptionally strong El Niño.
    — Jackie Flynn Mogensen, Scientific American, 22 Sep. 2026
  • Standard assays for measuring plastic breakdown are exceptionally slow because solid PET plastic resists dissolution, stretching testing timelines across several days.
    — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 21 Sep. 2026
Definition of exceptionally

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“Freakishly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/freakishly. Accessed 28 Sep. 2026.

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