adj Strange, abnormal, or bizarre in an unsettling way.
- It was a realy freakish accident that claimed many lives.
- This was arguably a more emphatic win than that Old Trafford thrashing, without the freakish element and simply the result of City's vast superiority in all areas.
— Phil McNulty, Man City 4–1 Man Utd (2013)
- In all this series there is an almost freakish tendency toward the development of characters usually regarded as generic, as a result of which most of the genera have only one known species each.
— John Merton Aldrich, Notes on Muscoid Flies with Retracted Hind Crossvein, with Key and Several New Genera and Species (1926)
- The house had a freakish resemblance to a face.
- It was a freakish coincidence that they met twice in one day.
