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Freakish is an English word with synonyms like capricious or outre. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.

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Freakish in a sentence

Freakish | Freakishly

Freakish meaning

  1. Resembling a freak.
  2. Strange, unusual, abnormal or bizarre.
  3. Capricious, unpredictable.

Using Freakish

  • The main meaning on this page is: Resembling a freak. | Strange, unusual, abnormal or bizarre. | Capricious, unpredictable.
  • Useful related words include: capricious, outre, outlandish, off-the-wall.
  • In the example corpus, freakish often appears in combinations such as: his freakish, freakish athleticism, and freakish.

Context around Freakish

  • Average sentence length in these examples: 27.5 words
  • Position in the sentence: 4 start, 10 middle, 6 end
  • Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations

Corpus analysis for Freakish

  • In this selection, "freakish" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 27.5 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around the word, looking, same, wonderfully, athleticism, spate and otherworldly stand out and add context to how "freakish" is used.
  • Recognizable usage signals include a quite freakish spate of and already wonderfully freakish outliers. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
  • By corpus frequency, "freakish" sits close to words such as aapi, aarey and aberdare, which helps place it inside the broader word index.

Example types with freakish

The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:

Freakish strikes, but few have been more important in his glittering career. (12 words)

In a man who will be 78 in July, they are positively freakish. (13 words)

Red-headedness was relatively rare for 15th century Milan and so regarded as freakish. (14 words)

McDaniels is one of the most physically imposing players in the draft, a 6’9” frame and freakish athleticism, enabling him to be one of the PAC-12’s more consistent scorers, on his way to 13 points per game last season. (42 words)

Even in the freakish, contorted sporting universe in which boxing resides, a vacuum of reason where every prospect is a future world champion and every boast cranked up to 11, the idea of unearthing a gifted heavyweight remains the Holy Grail. (41 words)

Liverpool go into Sunday’s Merseyside derby unbeaten in their last 18 games against their local rivals although Everton gave Jurgen Klopp’s side a real test at Anfield when only a freakish late winner from Divock Origi separated the sides. (41 words)

Example sentences (20)

Billed as pivotal to ambitions of reclaiming the Premiership title with Rangers six points clear at the summit, Celtic desperately needed reinforcements to bolster a group toiling under the weight of a quite freakish spate of injuries.

Don't even get me started on the main character's freakish, otherworldly-looking "baby" (that is oddly still kind of cute?).

Godzilla also evolves as the film goes on, with each stage of his rapid evolution looking freakish and alarming in its own way.

It is not just his freakish athleticism and speed and vision and hands, but it is how the Penn State product is the entire package.

At least three including a toddler killed in a freakish road accident in West Godavari Dist. A speeding car lost control and rammed into another vehicle in the opposite lane.

Dadaist machinations set him and his family through a freakish labyrinth that led them to their true home.

The empire has been doing this same freakish Nice Guy Axe Murderer schtick with Gaza.

Even in the freakish, contorted sporting universe in which boxing resides, a vacuum of reason where every prospect is a future world champion and every boast cranked up to 11, the idea of unearthing a gifted heavyweight remains the Holy Grail.

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Ingraham’s attitude seems to be “If we didn’t shut down for HIV then we can’t properly shut down now,” regardless of whether it’s necessary or not to avoid a freakish death toll.

McDaniels is one of the most physically imposing players in the draft, a 6’9” frame and freakish athleticism, enabling him to be one of the PAC-12’s more consistent scorers, on his way to 13 points per game last season.

Unfortunately, elite sportspeople are an abysmal sample on which to make generalisations about populations – they are already wonderfully freakish outliers.

In a man who will be 78 in July, they are positively freakish.

Liverpool go into Sunday’s Merseyside derby unbeaten in their last 18 games against their local rivals although Everton gave Jurgen Klopp’s side a real test at Anfield when only a freakish late winner from Divock Origi separated the sides.

Red-headedness was relatively rare for 15th century Milan and so regarded as freakish.

The playmaker has a freakish ability to bamboozle defences in the 13-man version of the game and is expected to come into his own as part of a star-studded Australian outfit during the two-day tournament.

Unless your daily routine involves hauling around two alpacas and their tuba and double bass for some freakish music project you’re working on, you should have no problem using the Jetta GLI for your daily needs.

Even as the world’s tilted off its axis and freakish aberrations have occurred with increasing regularity, there are thankfully still a few natural laws that have held firm.

Freakish strikes, but few have been more important in his glittering career.

Then there are currently two signees in the 2019 class — California product Chris Adimora and a freakish athlete in Plano East’s Tyler Owens.

The youngster is in line to be the quarterback of the defense, he seems to be absorbing everything in stride and his freakish athleticism is impossible to miss on the practice field.

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Common combinations with freakish

These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:

Frequently asked questions

How do you use "freakish" in a sentence?
An example: "Billed as pivotal to ambitions of reclaiming the Premiership title with Rangers six points clear at the summit, Celtic desperately needed reinforcements to bolster a group toiling under the weight of a quite freakish spate of injuries." This page contains 10+ example sentences with the word "freakish" from authentic English texts.
What does "freakish" mean?
Freakish means: Resembling a freak.
What are synonyms of "freakish"?
Common synonyms of "freakish" include: capricious, outre, outlandish, off-the-wall, gonzo, flakey, flaky, freaky. Plus 5 more synonyms.
How many example sentences with "freakish" are there?
Voorbeeldzinnen.info contains at least 10+ example sentences with "freakish", drawn from a database of millions of English sentences.