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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Or if we’re feeling freaky, we could go to Club Tee Gee in Atwater for some dancing, to really have fun and feel like tomorrow’s not Monday.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026
"Moss is a little bit freaky," says von Konrat.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 6, 2026
Still, Mr. Birney’s exotically low-fi imagination makes for a freaky and feverish trip.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 8, 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
They had been using those freaky necklaces they’d worn during the battle in the valley to not only absorb power from other witches but to influence the Grans through powerful and corrupted magic.
From "Witchlings" by Claribel A. Ortega
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
Not content to reproduce numbers from her album and fan-favorites from her back catalogue, Charli tweaked tracks to make dance songs even dancier and freak-outs even freakier.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 7, 2022
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
But even among the freakiest stars in the universe, things can get weirder.
From Salon ● Oct. 27, 2022
It’s a rare feat for an artist’s freakiest record to double as its commercial breakthrough.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 24, 2021
He pulled her toward the door just as the freakiest sound Ivy had ever heard loomed over the siren.
From "Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World" by Ashley Herring Blake
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