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queerish

adjective

1
as in sick
affected with nausea if you don't take that antibiotic with food, you might feel a little queerish at first

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2
as in funny
different from the ordinary in a way that causes curiosity or suspicion the guy at the bar bought me a drink that left a queerish taste in my mouth

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for queerish
  1. sick
  2. funny
  3. bizarre
  4. strange
  5. weird
  6. peculiar
  7. odd
  8. curious
Adjective
  • Khadijah had insisted on nursing their newborn Aziza with her own breast milk, but Latif discovers that only a few pouches remain in the fridge and formula makes his baby sick.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 25 Sep. 2026
  • As well as being a holy site, Lourdes attracts around 3 million pilgrims a year, including approximately 60,000 sick and disabled pilgrims.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 24 Sep. 2026
Definition of sick
Adjective
  • And that is a very funny, exploitable premise on its surface.
    — Fiction Non Fiction, Literary Hub, 24 Sep. 2026
  • On Standby follows Sagit, a 33-year-old airport security screener whose brutally honest view of the world and chaotic personal life turn even the most ordinary interactions into painfully funny disasters.
    — Max Goldbart, Deadline, 23 Sep. 2026
Definition of funny
Adjective
  • In a bizarre way, meeting the late, great Lynch — whom Watts did an impeccable impression of, pretend cigarette and all — was almost like therapy for the actress, who landed that breakout role at the age of 31.
    — Lily Ford, HollywoodReporter, 27 Sep. 2026
  • In 2018, Entertainment Weekly wrote an oral history of the bizarre entertainment at the 1989 gala.
    — Raechal Shewfelt, Entertainment Weekly, 25 Sep. 2026
Definition of bizarre
Adjective
  • The reunion becomes even stranger when Constance prepares for a dark holiday celebration, with Kai Anderson (Evan Peters) from Cult helping decorate a black Christmas tree topped with a pentagram.
    — Lexi Carson, HollywoodReporter, 25 Sep. 2026
  • The public wiki case offers a particularly strange example of the problem.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 25 Sep. 2026
Definition of strange
Adjective
  • Beck was playing a shabby, malnourished musician living in a shack who acts as an emissary of a weird celebrity cult.
    — Josephine Reisman, Vulture, 24 Sep. 2026
  • But, in a weird sort of way, that approach advances the point critics have about Williams.
    — Armando Salguero OutKick, FOXNews.com, 23 Sep. 2026
Definition of weird
Adjective
  • The fact that here on Earth the same amount of time lapses for two people between a separation and reunion gives us a peculiar intuition about temporality—an intuition that does not work elsewhere.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 21 Sep. 2026
  • The episode also illustrates the peculiar hazards of an underground band suddenly becoming music business bait.
    — SPIN Staff, SPIN, 18 Sep. 2026
Definition of peculiar
Adjective
  • The franchise, one of the most successful ever, spans thirty-odd games—many of which are very good—and has spawned multiple live-action film adaptations and television shows, nearly all of which have been terrible.
    — Tyler Foggatt, New Yorker, 25 Sep. 2026
  • And the plot careens from one incident to the next, sometimes landing on a random sight gag or odd digression.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 25 Sep. 2026
Definition of odd
Adjective
  • From the charming courtyards and upscale fashion boutiques tucked behind Worth Avenue to the rugged majesty of Jupiter’s inlets, the region is a playground for the curious traveler.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 23 Sep. 2026
  • Be more curious and understand how all actions affect you 5, 10 years from now.
    — Medora Lee, USA Today, 23 Sep. 2026
Definition of curious
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“Queerish.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/queerish. Accessed 29 Sep. 2026.

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