adjective
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slang strange; unconventional; bizarre
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another word for freakish
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Origin of freaky
Explanation
Something freaky is so weird that it's almost scary. If you have a freaky dream, you might wake with a frightened gasp. Very strange looking animals are freaky, and creepy stories told at night around a campfire are best when they're a little freaky. An uncanny coincidence is freaky, and so are many Halloween costumes. The adjective is an informal way to say "bizarre" or "peculiar." It comes from freak, but the ultimate origin is unknown — although freak originally meant "a very sudden turn of mind."
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“We didn’t know. And so that was a freaky moment.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026
Chase told The Times in 2002 that she took her own voice “and put this freaky twist on it” to play the character.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 29, 2026
"Moss is a little bit freaky," says von Konrat.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 6, 2026
As I reported in detail for my first story at Slate, all those years ago, the market was freaky.
From Slate ● Dec. 10, 2025
It was a hazy and distant sort of knowing that settled into me, one part freaky premonition, one part doomed daydream.
From "Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet" by Joanne Proulx
Yet this novel is more interesting when it explores the freakier aspects of the alien’s presence: Every evening at around the same time, local oldsters with dementia become briefly lucid.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 30, 2026
The family dynamic gets freakier as there is a quadruple body-swapping.
From BBC ● Jul. 31, 2025
There are two things even freakier than seeing vibrating magnetic fields of plasma-light around our galaxy's black hole.
From Salon ● Mar. 28, 2024
As the music pushes outward from glam to disco to freakier fringes, Fohr’s influences never feel like part of her costume.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 28, 2020
Beauty may always be a little bit freakish, but the year I turned thirteen I was becoming freakier than ever.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
The one thing that the hottest, freakiest fishing lure of the summer doesn’t look like?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026
At a time when nostalgia for the ’90s is seemingly everywhere, “My Bad” places the decade into context, including its paradoxical freedoms and oppressions, with the intimate, funny rough language of your freakiest, funnest bestie.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 25, 2026
This is her first film with Disney in more than a decade but is probably not the last as she says if fans love Freakier Friday they could expect the freakiest of sequels.
From BBC ● Jul. 31, 2025
But even among the freakiest stars in the universe, things can get weirder.
From Salon ● Oct. 27, 2022
“Like this isn’t a gang. Please. It’s the freakiest gang ever.”
From "Beauty Queens" by Libba Bray
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