FREAKY Synonyms: 107 Similar and Opposite Words

freaky

adjective

Definition of freaky

as in freak

informal strange or unusual a horror movie about a freaky town full of ghosts

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Recent Examples of freaky But at a press event in Seoul on Tuesday, the last city on the tour, Theron opted for something freakier. — Jacqui Palumbo, CNN Money, 7 Aug. 2026 After all, InStyle’s Senior Editor Jordan Julian tells me that the freaky flat fad isn’t going anywhere. — Tessa Petak, InStyle, 1 Aug. 2026 Let’s cool things down with a chilling (and chilly) new horror offering from the good folks at Netflix, this one all about a freaky child-killer and the two men hellbent on bringing him down. — Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 14 July 2026 Lady Caroline Blackwood drew on her own upper-class, Anglo-Irish upbringing for this autobiographical fiction about the multigenerational destruction of women by their own families, and the novel has the unshakeable, freaky urgency of truth. — Rachel Syme, New Yorker, 10 June 2026 See All Example Sentences for freaky

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Adjective

Officials in Kansas say a man has died after he was shot by his dog in a freak hunting accident.

— Abigail Adams, Peoplemag, 24 Jan. 2023
Hamlin, 24, fell victim to a freak accident during a game against the Cincinnati Bengals last week when a collision with another player stopped his heart.

— Justin Klawans, The Week, 7 Jan. 2023

Definition of freak

Adjective

By Sean McGowan THURSDAY PUZZLE — Welcome back to Thursday, the day of the week where the crossword gets weirder and the wordplay gets wilder.

— Sean McGowan, New York Times, 22 Oct. 2026
Astronomers were left with the troublesome task of pairing up two weird objects, smushing them together and hoping to get Lucifer as a result.

— Robin George Andrews, Scientific American, 20 Oct. 2026

Definition of weird

Adjective

After Orson’s reading from the novel, the broadcast cuts in on a weather report that is then followed by a dance music concert, but the smooth tango music is interrupted by breaking news of strange explosions on Mars.

— Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 23 Oct. 2026
However, a strange light phenomenon and the arrival of her physicist ex-husband pull her back into the scientific world.

— Cooper Katz McKim, NPR, 23 Oct. 2026

Definition of strange

Adjective

The cookie shops have a rotating menu of cookies with elaborate toppings, sometimes offering bizarre flavors such as everything bagel.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 23 Oct. 2026
Skerritt co-starred opposite Kathy Baker, playing his doctor wife in the community of Rome, Wisconsin, a place with bizarre happenings, like having a robber leaving a trail of frogs or the pope becoming the primary witness to a murder.

— CBS News, CBS News, 22 Oct. 2026

Definition of bizarre

Adjective

As the country hurtles toward a pivotal but divisive election, Netflix has done us all a favor by dropping four documentaries about really funny people this month.

— Stuart Miller, Los Angeles Times, 20 Oct. 2026
New York is getting roasted for an awkward giveaway T-shirt gaffe, made funnier by the team proudly posting the evidence on social media.

— Alejandro Avila OutKick, FOXNews.com, 20 Oct. 2026

Definition of funny

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The multigenerational novel centers on Jacob, a curious child in Scotland whose story connects with generations that come before and after him, including a family in 1955 who gather at Killigarth House for the summer to watch a historic comet.

— Carly Tagen-Dye, PEOPLE, 22 Oct. 2026
One stretch of the vast Western Australia wilderness is imprinted with a curious crater, which likely formed after a meteor impact hundreds of millions of years ago.

— Chelsea Gohd, Space.com, 22 Oct. 2026

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