noun / adjective
freak
FREEK/friːk/
A person or occurrence strikingly outside the normal pattern.
The carrot with tangled roots looks like a freak of nature.
Etymology
The origin is unknown, but the word first meant a sudden whim or capricious turn of mind. It later described an unusual thing, then an unusually formed person or thing.
In context
and you know i was growing up uh in a very provincially minded conservative southern baptist religious town in uh georgia north of atlanta and um and i was a freak i was an alien
More examples
- A freak snowstorm closes the roads in April.
- Calling a person a freak for looking different is cruel.
- My brother is a fitness freak who exercises every morning.
Forms
freak · freaks
freakish adjective — Strikingly strange or outside the ordinary.
Similar words
- oddity
- Suggests something unusual or curious, usually without the same insult.
- anomaly
- Emphasizes a departure from an expected pattern rather than strangeness.