The meaning of Freak

adjective

Departing from an accepted standard.

Usage examples:

This somewhat aberrant behaviour requires an explanation

adjective

Different from what is typical or usual, especially in an unacceptable way

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Aberrant behaviour/sexuality

noun

A departure from what is normal, usual, or expected, typically an unwelcome one.

Usage examples:

They described the outbreak of violence in the area as an aberration

adjective

Deviating from what is normal or usual, typically in a way that is undesirable or worrying.

Usage examples:

The illness is recognizable from the patient's abnormal behaviour

adjective

Not usual or average

Usage examples:

We had an abnormal amount of snow., he has an abnormal heartbeat., [ c ] no abnormalities showed up…

noun

An abnormal feature, characteristic, or occurrence.

Usage examples:

Babies with congenital abnormalities

noun

Something abnormal, usually in the body

Usage examples:

Genetic/congenital abnormalities, an increasing number of tests are available for detecting foetal …

noun

A playing card with a single spot on it, ranked as the highest card in its suit in most card games.

Usage examples:

The ace of diamonds

adjective

Very good.

Usage examples:

An ace swimmer

verb

(in tennis and similar games) serve an ace against (an opponent).

Usage examples:

He can ace opponents with serves of no more than 62 mph

noun

A person who is addicted to a particular substance, typically an illegal drug.

Usage examples:

A former heroin addict

noun

A person who is unable to stop doing or using something

noun

A person who is very knowledgeable and enthusiastic about an activity, subject, or pastime.

Usage examples:

A crossword aficionado

noun

Someone who is very interested in and enthusiastic about a particular subject

Usage examples:

A club for model railway aficionados, an aficionado of french cinema

adjective

Deviating from what is standard, normal, or expected.

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An anomalous situation

adjective

Different from what is usual, or not in agreement with something else and therefore not satisfactory

Usage examples:

In a multicultural society is it not anomalous to have a blasphemy law that only protects one relig…

adjective

Not representative of a type, group, or class.

Usage examples:

A sample of people who are rather atypical of the target audience

adjective

Not typical; different from most others of its type

Usage examples:

This game is very atypical of how we played this year.

adjective

Very strange or unusual.

Usage examples:

A bizarre situation

adjective

Strange and unusual

Usage examples:

That party was too bizarre for me!

noun

A yellowish-beige colour.

Usage examples:

A buff envelope

verb

Polish (something).

Usage examples:

He buffed the glass until it gleamed

adjective

(of a person or their body) in good physical shape with well-developed muscles.

Usage examples:

The driver was a buff blond named march

noun

A line on the surface of something along which it has split without breaking apart.

Usage examples:

A hairline crack down the middle of the glass

verb

Break or cause to break without a complete separation of the parts.

Usage examples:

The ice all over the bog had cracked

adjective

Very good or skilful.

Usage examples:

He is a crack shot

phrasal verb

Laugh unrestrainedly

phrasal verb

To become mentally ill

Usage examples:

I think she's cracking up., the story depicts the crack-up of the writers' own partnership., the em…

phrasal verb

To laugh with great enthusiasm, or to cause someone to laugh in this way

Usage examples:

The stories they told cracked me up.

noun

A person who is very interested in and enthusiastic about someone or something.

Usage examples:

A devotee of lewis carroll

noun

A person who is very interested in a particular activity or subject.

Usage examples:

A sports car enthusiast

noun

Someone who is very interested in and involved with a particular subject or activity

Usage examples:

A computer-games enthusiast

adjective

Unusual; not typical.

Usage examples:

Late claims will only be accepted in exceptional circumstances

noun

An item in a company's accounts arising from its normal activity but much larger or smaller than usual.

Usage examples:

This drop in operating profit caused pre-tax profit before accounting for exceptionals to fall from…

adjective

Not like most others of the same type; unusual

Usage examples:

This is an exceptional contract, guaranteeing no layoffs., davis has done an exceptional job of rep…

noun

A person who is very knowledgeable about or skilful in a particular area.

Usage examples:

An expert in healthcare

adjective

Having or involving a great deal of knowledge or skill in a particular area.

Usage examples:

He had received expert academic advice

noun

A person having a high level of knowledge or skill in a particular subject

Usage examples:

He is the administration’s foreign-policy expert for eastern europe., she’s an expert swimmer.

noun

An apparatus with rotating blades that creates a current of air for cooling or ventilation.

Usage examples:

A couple of ceiling fans, lazily turning

verb

Cool (someone or something) by waving an object to create a current of air.

Usage examples:

He fanned himself with his hat

noun

A person who has a strong interest in or admiration for a particular person or thing.

Usage examples:

Football fans

noun

A person filled with excessive and single-minded zeal, especially for an extreme religious or political cause.

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Religious fanatics

adjective

Filled with or expressing excessive zeal.

Usage examples:

His eyes had a fanatic iciness

noun

A person whose strong admiration for something is extreme and unreasonable

Usage examples:

A fitness/exercise fanatic, her devotion to her pets was fanatical.

noun

An evil spirit or demon.

Usage examples:

The evil that was spawned from cain became spirits, monsters, fiends, goblins and giants, forging t…

adjective

Obtained or achieved more by chance than skill.

Usage examples:

A fluky goal

adjective

(of something good) happening as the result of chance instead of skill or planning

Usage examples:

There was nothing fluky about her victory or her tactics., we won with a flukey goal.

adjective

Very unusual, strange, or unexpected.

Usage examples:

Freakish weather

adjective

Very unusual or unexpected, especially in an unpleasant or strange way

Usage examples:

Freakish weather conditions have caused massive traffic jams in the area., when you're a child you …

noun

Plural form of fundus.

noun

See fundie.

noun

An expert in a particular area.

Usage examples:

A turtle fundi

noun

A person who is knowledgeable about and obsessively interested in a particular subject, especially one that is technical or of specialist or niche interest.

Usage examples:

A computer geek

verb

An unfashionable or socially inept person.

noun

A look.

Usage examples:

There was a lot i wanted to have a geek at

adjective

Not even or balanced in shape or arrangement.

Usage examples:

His strong, irregular features

noun

A member of an irregular military force.

Usage examples:

The filipino operational center of gravity was the ability to sustain its force of 100,000 irregula…

adjective

Not regular in shape or form; having parts of different shapes or sizes

Usage examples:

An irregular surface, there are irregular spaces between the words., he showed up at irregular inte…

noun

The state or quality of being irregular.

Usage examples:

There is evidence that fraud and irregularity continue on a large scale

noun

Something that is not according to usual rules or what is expected, and often not acceptable

Usage examples:

The company discovered accounting irregularities going back three to four years.

noun

A disc jockey.

Usage examples:

Dashboard confessional took the stage to a lot of high-pitched screaming and proceeded to impress e…

noun

Another term for jockstrap.

noun

A scotsman (often as a form of address).

noun

A partner in a sexual or romantic relationship outside marriage.

Usage examples:

I think she had a secret lover

noun

A partner in a romantic or physical relationship

Usage examples:

The remote island is ideal for nature lovers.

noun

An abnormally formed part of the body.

Usage examples:

The drug may cause malformations in the developing embryo

noun

The condition of being wrongly formed, or a part of something, such as part of the body, that is wrongly formed

Usage examples:

Exposure to radiation can lead to malformation of the embryo., she was born critically ill with a s…

noun

A person exhibiting extremely wild or violent behaviour.

Usage examples:

When he sits in front of a playstation he transforms into a karate-choppin' maniac

combining form

Forming nouns corresponding to words ending in -mania.

Usage examples:

Kleptomaniac

noun

A person who has an unusually strong interest in an activity or subject

Usage examples:

My brother is a maniac when it comes to football., a homicidal maniac

noun

A man who has people working for him, especially servants or slaves.

Usage examples:

He acceded to his master's wishes

verb

Used as a title prefixed to the name of a boy not old enough to be called ‘mr’.

Usage examples:

Master james wishart

noun

A ship or boat with a specified number of masts.

Usage examples:

A three-master

noun

An expert or connoisseur.

Usage examples:

Fashion mavens call beige oatmeal

noun

A person with good knowledge or understanding of a subject

Usage examples:

Walter’s a baseball maven and knows hank aaron’s statistics by heart.

noun

An expert on a subject

Usage examples:

The money maven takes her own advice., a fashion/media/design maven

noun

A large, ugly, and frightening imaginary creature.

Usage examples:

A monster with the head of a hyena and hindquarters of a wolf

verb

Criticize or reprimand severely.

Usage examples:

My mum used to monster me for coming home so late

noun

Any imaginary frightening creature, esp. one that is large and strange

Usage examples:

To the whole world, he was a monster., a monster shark

noun

A thing, especially a building, which is very large and unsightly.

Usage examples:

The shopping centre, a multi-storey monstrosity of raw concrete

noun

Something that is very ugly and usually large

Usage examples:

That new office building is a real monstrosity.

adjective

Resulting from or showing the effect of mutation.

Usage examples:

A mutant gene

noun

A mutant form.

Usage examples:

Frequently only a small percentage of the offspring of mutants resemble their parents

noun

A new type of organism that is a result of the process of mutation

noun

A fruit consisting of a hard or tough shell around an edible kernel.

Usage examples:

He was cracking nuts with his teeth

verb

Butt (someone) with one's head.

Usage examples:

I thought he was going to nut me in the face

abbreviation

(in the uk) national union of teachers.

adjective

Different to what is usual or expected; strange.

Usage examples:

The neighbours thought him very odd

adjective

Strange or unexpected

Usage examples:

An odd person, that’s odd – i thought i left my glasses on the table but they’re not here., he’s go…

noun

A strange or peculiar person or thing.

Usage examples:

She was regarded as a bit of an oddity

noun

Someone or something that is strange and unusual

Usage examples:

As one of the few women in engineering in the 1950s, she was considered an oddity.

noun

Sudden uncontrollable fear or anxiety, often causing wildly unthinking behaviour.

Usage examples:

She hit him in panic

verb

Feel or cause to feel panic.

Usage examples:

The crowd panicked and stampeded for the exit

noun

A cereal and fodder grass of a group including millet.

Usage examples:

Two of the most common, but functionally indeterminate, grass grains regularly identified from amer…

adjective

Different to what is normal or expected; strange.

Usage examples:

He gave her some very peculiar looks

noun

A parish or church exempt from the jurisdiction of the diocese in which it lies, and subject to the direct jurisdiction of the monarch or an archbishop.

Usage examples:

Deans and canons of royal peculiars, notably westminster abbey and windsor

adjective

Unusual and strange

Usage examples:

The copy editor will check type size and technical details to see if anything looks peculiar., kath…

adjective

Strange; odd.

Usage examples:

She had a queer feeling that they were being watched

verb

(of a person) homosexual.

adjective

Unusual or strange

Usage examples:

She had a queer expression on her face.

verb

Break suddenly and completely, typically with a sharp cracking sound.

Usage examples:

Guitar strings kept snapping

noun

A sudden, sharp cracking sound or movement.

Usage examples:

She closed her purse with a snap

adjective

Done or taken on the spur of the moment, unexpectedly, or without notice.

Usage examples:

A snap decision

adjective

Unable to be explained.

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A strange and unaccountable fact

adjective

Not able to be explained or understood

Usage examples:

For some unaccountable reason, he forgot his car keys.

adjective

Not able to be anticipated or predicted.

Usage examples:

Too many unforeseeable political consequences could arise from such a decision

adjective

An unforeseeable event or situation is one that cannot be known about or guessed before it happens

Usage examples:

Loss due to unforeseeable circumstances is borne by the purchaser., these countries were facing a v…

adjective

Having no parallel or equal; exceptional.

Usage examples:

The sudden rise in unemployment is unparalleled in the post-war period

adjective

Not able to be predicted; changeable.

Usage examples:

The unpredictable weather of the scottish islands

adjective

Tending to change suddenly and without reason or warning, and therefore not able to be depended on

Usage examples:

Unpredictable weather, the world is pretty unpredictable.

adjective

If something is unpredictable, it is likely to change suddenly and unexpectedly, so cannot be planned for

Usage examples:

To protect it from the unpredictable nature of software sales, the company has adopted a new busine…

adjective

Not typical of a class, group, or body of opinion.

Usage examples:

An unrepresentative minority

adjective

Not typical of a larger group of people or things; not representative

adjective

Not having the distinctive qualities of a particular type of person or thing; uncharacteristic.

Usage examples:

He considers the film untypical of college movies

adjective

Not showing all the characteristics that you would usually expect from a particular group of things or people, or from a particular person

Usage examples:

Her angry outburst was untypical; she's usually a very quiet woman., it is not untypical of girls o…

adjective

Not habitually or commonly occurring or done.

Usage examples:

It was unusual for dennis to be late

adjective

Different from what is usual or expected

Usage examples:

I was actually on time, which is unusual for me.

noun

(in legends and fairy tales) a man who has magical powers.

Usage examples:

To do that he requires a rod of dragon control, and hopes to get his hands on the one the empress u…

adjective

Wonderful; excellent.

Usage examples:

How absolutely wizard!

noun

A man who is believed to have magical powers and, esp. in stories, uses them to help or harm people

Usage examples:

A financial wizard