'Freak' definitions:
Definition of 'freak'
(from WordNet)
noun
A person or animal that is markedly unusual or deformed [syn: freak, monster, monstrosity, lusus naturae]
noun
Someone who is so ardently devoted to something that it resembles an addiction; "a golf addict"; "a car nut"; "a bodybuilding freak"; "a news junkie" [syn: addict, nut, freak, junkie, junky]
verb
Definition of 'Freak'
From: GCIDE
Definition of 'Freak'
From: GCIDE
- Freak \Freak\, v. t.
- 1. to cause (a person) react with great distress or extreme emotion; -- often used in the phrase
- freak out. [PJC]
Definition of 'Freak'
From: GCIDE
- Freak \Freak\ (fr[=e]k), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Freaked (fr[=e]kt); p. pr. & vb. n. Freaking.] [Akin to OE. frakin, freken, freckle, Icel. freknur, pl., Sw. fr[aum]kne, Dan. fregne, Gr. perkno`s dark-colored, Skr. p[.r][,c]ni variegated. Cf. Freckle, Freck.] To variegate; to checker; to streak. [R.] [1913 Webster]
- Freaked with many a mingled hue. --Thomson. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Freak'
From: GCIDE
- Freak \Freak\, n. [Prob. from OE. frek bold, AS. frec bold, greedly; akin to OHG. freh greedly, G. frech insolent, Icel. frekr greedy, Goth. fa['i]hufriks avaricious.]
- 1. A sudden causeless change or turn of the mind; a whim of fancy; a capricious prank; a vagary or caprice. [1913 Webster]
- She is restless and peevish, and sometimes in a freak will instantly change her habitation. --Spectator.
- 2. a rare and unpredictable event; as, the July snowstorm was a freak of nature. [PJC]
- 3. an habitual drug user, especially one who uses psychedelic drugs. [PJC]
- 4. an animal or person with a visible congenital abnormality; -- applied especially to those who appear in a circus sideshow. [PJC]
- Syn: Whim; caprice; folly; sport. See Whim. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'freak'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- aberration,
- abnormal,
- abnormality,
- abortion,
- acidhead,
- addict,
- aficionado,
- alcoholic,
- amateur,
- androgyne,
- anomalous,
- anomaly,
- aspirant,
- aspirer,
- atypical,
- authority,
- baroque,
- beatnik,
- bee,
- bigot,
- bizarre,
- Bohemian,
- boutade,
- brainstorm,
- buff,
- bug,
- candidate,
- capriccio,
- caprice,
- chain smoker,
- character,
- chimera,
- cocaine sniffer,
- cokie,
- collector,
- conceit,
- connoisseur,
- coveter,
- crackpot,
- crank,
- craze,
- crazy idea,
- critic,
- crosspatch,
- crotchet,
- cubehead,
- curiosity,
- deformed,
- deformity,
- demon,
- desirer,
- deviant,
- devotee,
- dilettante,
- dipsomaniac,
- dissenter,
- dope fiend,
- doper,
- dropout,
- drug abuser,
- drug addict,
- drug user,
- drunkard,
- eager beaver,
- eccentric,
- eccentricity,
- energumen,
- enthusiast,
- erratic,
- exceptional,
- expert,
- extraordinary,
- fad,
- faddist,
- fan,
- fanatic,
- fanatico,
- fancier,
- fancy,
- fantastic notion,
- fantasy,
- fiend,
- flake,
- flimflam,
- flower child,
- fool notion,
- freak of nature,
- freakish,
- freakish inspiration,
- freaky,
- glue sniffer,
- great one for,
- grotesque,
- habitual,
- hankerer,
- harebrained idea,
- head,
- heavy smoker,
- heretic,
- hermaphrodite,
- hippie,
- hobbyist,
- hopeful,
- hophead,
- hound,
- humor,
- hype,
- idiosyncrasy,
- individualist,
- infatuate,
- inner-directed person,
- irregularity,
- junkie,
- kink,
- kook,
- lover,
- LSD user,
- lunatic fringe,
- maggot,
- malconformation,
- malformation,
- malformed,
- maniac,
- marijuana smoker,
- maverick,
- megrim,
- methhead,
- misbegotten,
- miscreation,
- misfit,
- misshape,
- misshapen,
- monomaniac,
- monster,
- monstrosity,
- monstrous,
- mosaic,
- mutant,
- mutation,
- narcotics addict,
- naysayer,
- nonconformist,
- nonjuror,
- notion,
- nut,
- odd,
- oddball,
- oddity,
- original,
- passing fancy,
- peculiarity,
- pillhead,
- pothead,
- pundit,
- pursuer,
- queer,
- quirk,
- rara avis,
- rare,
- rarity,
- recluse,
- rhapsodist,
- rococo,
- savant,
- scholar,
- screwball,
- sectarian,
- sectary,
- snowbird,
- solicitant,
- specialist,
- speed freak,
- sport,
- strange,
- strange duck,
- sucker for,
- suitor,
- swinger,
- technical expert,
- technician,
- teratism,
- teratogenic,
- teratoid,
- toy,
- tripper,
- ugly duckling,
- unconformist,
- unexpected,
- unforeseen,
- unique,
- unparalleled,
- unpredictable,
- unpredicted,
- unusual,
- user,
- vagary,
- visionary,
- votary,
- wanter,
- weird,
- weirdo,
- whim,
- whim-wham,
- whimsy,
- wisher,
- yearner,
- yippie,
- zealot