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English Dictionary: freakish by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
freakish
adj
  1. changeable; "a capricious summer breeze"; "freakish weather"
    Synonym(s): capricious, freakish
  2. characteristic of a freak; "a freakish extra toe"
  3. conspicuously or grossly unconventional or unusual; "restaurants of bizarre design--one like a hat, another like a rabbit"; "famed for his eccentric spelling"; "a freakish combination of styles"; "his off-the-wall antics"; "the outlandish clothes of teenagers"; "outre and affected stage antics"
    Synonym(s): bizarre, eccentric, freakish, freaky, flaky, flakey, gonzo, off-the-wall, outlandish, outre
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Freakish \Freak"ish\, a.
      Apt to change the mind suddenly; whimsical; capricious.
  
               It may be a question whether the wife or the woman was
               the more freakish of the two.                  --L'Estrange.
  
               Freakish when well, and fretful when she's sick.
                                                                              --Pope.
      -- {Freak"ish*ly}, adv. -- {Freak"ish*ness}, n.
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