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Definition of freakish :
Apt to change the mind suddenly; whimsical; capricious.
Synonyms:
quaint, weird, impulsive, mercurial, uncertain, temperamental, freaky, unsteady, offbeat, ticklish, remarkable, rummy, flakey, changeable, capricious, cranky, kooky, outre, grotesque, whimsical, unnatural, nonconcentric, flaky, gonzo, notable, rum, off-the-wall, change, continue, variable, usual, inconstant, surprising, exotic, fantastic, screwball, unpredictable, fickle, unstable, monstrous, fantastical, volatile, special
deformed (part of speech: adjective)
disfigured, distorted, asymmetrical, bent, crooked, awry, deformed, corrupt, cockeyed, lopsided, contorted, misshapen, perverse, flawed
nonconforming (part of speech: adjective)
fey, quirky, curious, idiosyncratic, uncustomary, bizarre, unusual, different, incongruous, inconsistent, unconventional, funny, aberrant, un-ordinary, odd, divergent, off, crosspatch, crazy, misfit, deviant, outlandish, atypical, oddball, singular, novel, extraordinary, uncommon, deranged, oddity, queer, incompatible, anomalous, improper, mismatch, strange, eccentric, nonconforming, out of the ordinary, untypical, erratic, unique, exceptional, abnormal, peculiar, irregular, unfamiliar
Usage examples:
- The word " system" is much abused in invention, and during the early days of electric lighting its use applied to a mere freakish lamp or dynamo was often ludicrous. - "Edison, His Life and Inventions", Frank Lewis Dyer and Thomas Commerford Martin.
- By some freakish law of co- ordination, which no one had ever been able to explain, that small stream gave a reading of conditions across the ridge, as a pulse- beat gives the tempo of the blood's current. - "A Pagan of the Hills", Charles Neville Buck.
- I repeat, Padua is a freakish city. - "Little Novels of Italy Madonna Of The Peach-Tree, Ippolita In The Hills, The Duchess Of Nona, Messer Cino And The Live Coal, The Judgment Of Borso", Maurice Henry Hewlett.