What's the difference between freak and freakish?

Freak


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To variegate; to checker; to streak.
  • (n.) A sudden causeless change or turn of the mind; a whim of fancy; a capricious prank; a vagary or caprice.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Freaks And Geeks was my thing, based on my experiences.
  • (2) Although she's been performing since 2000 – in the punk-cabaret duo the Dresden Dolls , in a controversial conjoined-twin mime act called Evelyn Evelyn (they wear a specially constructed two-person dress and have been castigated by disability groups for presenting conjoined twins as circus freaks, an accusation she denies) – in her new band, Amanda Palmer And The Grand Theft Orchestra , she's suddenly become a kind of phenomenon.
  • (3) Klitschko is a self-confessed control freak; so Fury was trying to rattle him out of his rhythm.
  • (4) 5.54pm BST It looks like the senate office buildings are returning to normal, just as the FREAK OUT party was getting exciting.
  • (5) You couldn't get much more bohemian than the music playing in this room of tiny round tables, first French crooner Serge Gainsbourg and then cabaret freak Scott Walker wailing of their obelisk-size pain.
  • (6) Over the summer his father, Jimmy, died from throat cancer , and his cousin, Hannah, was killed in a freak accident while on holiday.
  • (7) Although achilles tears are typically freak injuries, this hasn't stopped fans and media members alike from blaming Bryant's injuries on head coach Mike D'Antoni and his unwillingness, or inability, to get Bryant off the court for any significant amount of time.
  • (8) After almost 24 hours of being told I stank and generally being treated like a contagious freak, I was so grateful for these ministrations that I went to hug them.
  • (9) 1.23am GMT Red Sox 0 - Cardinals 1, top of the 4th Dustin Pedroia, quiet most of this postseason, is up to salvage anything here, it seems improbable that these Sox hitters can be rendered mute by Lance freaking Lynn, but so it goes.
  • (10) An African woman sold into slavery, Baartman was brought to London in 1810 as the "Hottentot Venus" and exhibited as a freak of nature in London and France.
  • (11) Sharknado, a satirical disaster film featuring man-eating sharks let loose on Los Angeles by a freak cyclone, premiered on SyFy in 2013 and became a cult hit, gaining some traction later as a theatrical release.
  • (12) Yes, yes, Richard Gere in American Gigolo, Cary Grant in North by Northwest, Steve McQueen in Bullitt, Colin Firth and Daniel Craig in whatever, blah blah freaking blah.
  • (13) It was common for people to insist I must be Latvian, as they were so freaked out by the idea of meeting someone from England.
  • (14) Nor is it an excuse for children to demand the hiring of a freaking limo.
  • (15) The Interview will become a global must-see and their Soviet-style control-freak instincts will look silly and culpable.
  • (16) But the sale of the house in Chester was held up for several months by a freak accident, a burst water main under the foundations which flooded the ground floor and made it uninhabitable.
  • (17) Where other sources of Georgian entertainment, from public dissections and freak shows to Bedlam and the Foundling Hospital, have, for one reason or another, fallen by the wayside, the exhibition of exotic beasts remains popular enough for someone such as Gill, a self-described “animal nutritionist”, to make a fortune out of it.
  • (18) This alternative economic activity, which often looked like a freak show – it attracted young people in.
  • (19) SPOILER ALERT: This blog discusses plot points from Freak Show, the fourth season of American Horror Story.
  • (20) Little ones might freak out a bit at the wax characters and the gloomy dark but this is a fun way to bring a fairly weighty school text to life.

Freakish


Definition:

  • (a.) Apt to change the mind suddenly; whimsical; capricious.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Sunderland might concede this was freakish as well.
  • (2) They can pitch , both in the starting rotation, which has been special over the last two seasons, and in the bullpen, one which will have to deal with the unfortunate and freakish loss of Aroldis Chapman, who broke facial bones after being hit by a screeching come backer.
  • (3) On kicking a boot into David Beckham's face in 2003 "It was a freakish incident.
  • (4) Although Watson is considered extremely raw in terms of his knowledge and understanding of the game, his freakish physical attributes dazzled the league's talent evaluators.
  • (5) Two offsides and a set-piece,” Manuel Pellegrini, the City manager, complained, as he sought to play up the freakish nature of the result and absolve his goalkeeper and central defenders.
  • (6) I think it's pretty freakish for ribs to be showing.
  • (7) IA: It bothers me a lot, because I've become really freakish.
  • (8) One, John Bryant, said it was a "freakish event" that "doesn't make any sense".
  • (9) Patterson has freakish athleticism but runs sloppy routes and his work ethic has been questioned.
  • (10) Manchester City have an addiction to making life more difficult for themselves than it might be but they raised the bar here to freakish new heights.
  • (11) It is a target that has been hit with freakish accuracy, especially given some of the big picture economic thrills and spills over that time.
  • (12) Consign Egg Cuber and its freakish progeny to hell.
  • (13) Chip’s freakishness, that drew to some extent from my own sense of freakishness.
  • (14) However, assuming a more stringent standard of safety, based on continuous exposure to mercury vapour, it was noted that some of the readings could be considered to be excessive, although these were of a freakish and transient nature.
  • (15) When they started the season without phenom Manny Machado and lost him again to a freakish August injury .
  • (16) Britain's total personal, corporate and government debt is substantially worse than Italy's, but the bond markets now freakishly rate London a safe haven, with the interest rate on gilts falling to 2.1%, just a smidgen over German bunds.
  • (17) Freakish weather disasters — from the sudden October snowstorm in the north-east US to the record floods in Thailand — are striking more often.
  • (18) And to discover that these things that I thought were freakish parts of my history and my personality – people were saying, ‘Oh, someone’s writing about me!
  • (19) I think this was all a plan to discombobulate Rough Copy with such a freakishly high level of cognitive dissonance that they forget to wear those silly plastic trousers.
  • (20) The same had happened, he suggested, in all their league defeats this term bar the loss at Aston Villa in their previous away game that he will always insist was born of a freakishly poor performance from the referee.

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