Freak

Noun

 * 1) A sudden causeless change or turn of the mind; a whim of fancy; a capricious prank; a vagary or caprice.
 * 2)  A nonconformist, especially in appearance, social behavior, sexual orientation, gender identity, and/or business practices; an oddball, especially in physiology (i.e., "circus freak"); unique, sometimes in a displeasing way.
 * 3)  A person whose physique has grown far beyond the normal limits of muscular development; often a bodybuilder weighing more than 120 kilos (260 pounds).
 * 4) A person who has an obsession with, or extreme knowledge of, something.
 * Bob's a real video-game freak. He owns every games console of the last ten years.
 * 1) A very sexually perverse individual, usually used affectionately or in another good willed context.

Verb

 * 1)  To make greatly distressed and/or a discomposed appearance
 * 2) * 1994, James Earl Hardy, B-Boy Blues: A Seriously Sexy, Fiercely Funny, Black-On-Black Love Story, (Alyson Publishing), page 107
 * But after one night turned into five days, I was freaking out. I missed him.
 * 1)  To be placed or place someone under the influence of a psychedelic drug
 * 2) * 1992, Peter G. Stafford, Psychedelics Encyclopedia, (Ronin Publishing), page 56
 * "[...] Harvard have compiled a list of LSD's contributions—largely missing before then—to our popular language: turned on, straight, freak, freaked out, stoned, [...]"
 * 1)  To streak
 * 2) * 1930, Robert Seymour Bridges, The Testament of Beauty: A Poem in Four Books, (Literary Criticism), page 20
 * "[...] in fine diaper of silver and mother-of-pearl freaking the intense azure; Now scurrying close overhead, wild ink-hued random racers that fling sheeted [...]"
 * 1)  To experience reality withdrawal, or hallucinations (nightmarish), to behave irrational or unconventional due to drug use.
 * 2)  To react extremely or irrationally, usually under distress or discomposure

Adjective

 * 1) strange, weird

Adjectives for Freak
grotesque; sudden; disgraceful; wanton; fashionable; unaccountable; fierce; impossible; peculiar.

Synonyms for Freak

 * whim
 * caprice
 * abnormality, monstrosity, vagary, crotchet, humor, fancy, change, conceit, quirk, whimsy, inconstancy, unsteadiness, fickleness, sport, fluke, aberration, irregularity.

Antonyms for Freak
normality, naturalness, conformity, perfectness, regularity, purpose, firmness, resolution, steadiness, honesty, steadfastness, constancy, resoluteness, resolve.

Derived terms

 * freak out

Derived terms

 * fly the freak flag
 * freak accident


 * freak flag
 * freak of nature


 * freakishly
 * freaky

Thesaurus
Bohemian, LSD user, aberration, abnormal, abnormality, abortion, acidhead, addict, aficionado, alcoholic, amateur, androgyne, anomalous, anomaly, aspirant, aspirer, atypical, authority, baroque, beatnik, bee, bigot, bizarre, 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, 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

Etymology
1560, "sudden change of mind, whim", of uncertain origin. Perhaps related to frician:, or  frek:, from  frec:, from. Compare freh:,  frecne:.

Noun

 * Finnish: ,
 * German: Laune


 * Spanish:, antojo


 * German: Freak


 * Czech:
 * Finnish:, ,
 * Russian:


 * Spanish: fenómeno
 * Ukrainian: дивак


 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: -friikki
 * French:


 * German: Freak, Spinner
 * Spanish: fanático, pirado
 * Turkish: manyak


 * Finnish:

Anagrams

 * faker