What's The Definition Of Freak?
[n] someone who is so ardently devoted to something that it resembles an addiction; "a golf addict"; "a car nut"; "a control freak"
[n] a person or animal that is markedly unusual or deformed
[v] lose one's nerve; "When he saw the accident, he freaked out"
Synonyms | Synonyms for Freak: addict |
freak out |
gross out |
lusus naturae |
monster |
monstrosity |
nut
Related Terms | Find terms related to Freak: 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 |
whimsy |
whim-wham |
wisher |
yearner |
yippie |
zealot
See Also | enthusiast |
leviathan |
mutant |
mutation |
panic |
partisan |
partizan |
sport |
variation
Freak In Webster's Dictionary
\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["a]kne, Dan.
fregne, Gr. perkno`s dark-colored, Skr. p[.r][,c]ni
variegated. Cf. {Freckle}, {Freck}.]
To variegate; to checker; to streak. [R.]
Freaked with many a mingled hue. --Thomson.
\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.]
A sudden causeless change or turn of the mind; a whim of
fancy; a capricious prank; a vagary or caprice.
She is restless and peevish, and sometimes in a freak
will instantly change her habitation. --Spectator.
Syn: Whim; caprice; folly; sport. See {Whim}.
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