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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

FRE'AKISH, 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.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: changeable; "a capricious summer breeze"; "freakish weather" [syn: 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" [syn: bizarre, eccentric, freakish, freaky, flaky, flakey, gonzo, off-the-wall, outlandish, outre]

Merriam Webster's

adjective Date: 1653 1. whimsical, capricious 2. markedly strange or abnormal <freakish appearance> • freakishly adverb • freakishness noun

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. 1 of or like a freak. 2 bizarre, unconventional. Derivatives: freakishly adv. freakishness n.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

Something that is freakish is remarkable because it is not normal or natural. ...his freakish voice varying from bass to soprano. ADJ: usu ADJ n

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a. Whimsical, capricious, odd, humorsome, erratic, fanciful, full of vagaries.

Moby Thesaurus

abnormal, adrift, afloat, alternating, amorphous, anomalous, arbitrary, baroque, bizarre, capricious, changeable, changeful, crank, crankish, cranky, crotchety, deformed, desultory, deviable, deviant, deviative, different, divergent, dizzy, dotty, eccentric, erratic, exceptional, fanciful, fantasied, fantastic, fast and loose, fey, fickle, fitful, flaky, flickering, flighty, flitting, fluctuating, freak, funny, giddy, grotesque, harebrained, humorsome, idiocratic, idiosyncratic, impetuous, impulsive, inconsistent, inconstant, indecisive, infirm, irregular, irresolute, irresponsible, kinky, kooky, maggoty, malformed, mazy, mercurial, misbegotten, misshapen, monstrous, moody, motiveless, notional, nutty, odd, oddball, peculiar, petulant, queer, quirky, rambling, restless, rococo, roving, scatterbrained, screwball, screwy, shapeless, shifting, shifty, shuffling, singular, spasmodic, spineless, strange, temperamental, teratogenic, teratoid, twisted, unaccountable, uncertain, uncontrolled, unconventional, undependable, undisciplined, unfixed, unnatural, unpredictable, unreasonable, unreliable, unrestrained, unsettled, unstable, unstable as water, unstaid, unsteadfast, unsteady, vacillating, vagarious, vagrant, variable, vicissitudinary, vicissitudinous, volatile, wacky, wandering, wanton, wavering, wavery, wavy, wayward, whimsical, wishy-washy