freakish

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
freakish
    adj 1: changeable; "a capricious summer breeze"; "freakish
           weather" [syn: {capricious}, {freakish}]
    2: characteristic of a freak; "a freakish extra toe"
    3: conspicuously or grossly unconventional or unusual;
       "restaurants of bizarre design--one like a hat, another like
       a rabbit"; "famed for his eccentric spelling"; "a freakish
       combination of styles"; "his off-the-wall antics"; "the
       outlandish clothes of teenagers"; "outre and affected stage
       antics" [syn: {bizarre}, {eccentric}, {freakish}, {freaky},
       {flaky}, {flakey}, {gonzo}, {off-the-wall}, {outlandish},
       {outre}]
    
from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Freakish \Freak"ish\, a.
   Apt to change the mind suddenly; whimsical; capricious.
   [1913 Webster]

         It may be a question whether the wife or the woman was
         the more freakish of the two.            --L'Estrange.
   [1913 Webster]

         Freakish when well, and fretful when she's sick.
                                                  --Pope.

   2. rapidly changing and unpredictable; as, freakish weather.
      [PJC]

   3. markedly abnormal.

   Syn: freaky.
        [PJC] -- {Freak"ish*ly}, adv. -- {Freak"ish*ness}, n.
        [1913 Webster]
    
from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
129 Moby Thesaurus words for "freakish":
      abnormal, adrift, afloat, alternating, amorphous, anomalous,
      arbitrary, baroque, bizarre, capricious, changeable, changeful,
      crank, crankish, cranky, crotchety, deformed, desultory, deviable,
      deviant, deviative, different, divergent, dizzy, dotty, eccentric,
      erratic, exceptional, fanciful, fantasied, fantastic,
      fast and loose, fey, fickle, fitful, flaky, flickering, flighty,
      flitting, fluctuating, freak, funny, giddy, grotesque, harebrained,
      humorsome, idiocratic, idiosyncratic, impetuous, impulsive,
      inconsistent, inconstant, indecisive, infirm, irregular,
      irresolute, irresponsible, kinky, kooky, maggoty, malformed, mazy,
      mercurial, misbegotten, misshapen, monstrous, moody, motiveless,
      notional, nutty, odd, oddball, peculiar, petulant, queer, quirky,
      rambling, restless, rococo, roving, scatterbrained, screwball,
      screwy, shapeless, shifting, shifty, shuffling, singular,
      spasmodic, spineless, strange, temperamental, teratogenic,
      teratoid, twisted, unaccountable, uncertain, uncontrolled,
      unconventional, undependable, undisciplined, unfixed, unnatural,
      unpredictable, unreasonable, unreliable, unrestrained, unsettled,
      unstable, unstable as water, unstaid, unsteadfast, unsteady,
      vacillating, vagarious, vagrant, variable, vicissitudinary,
      vicissitudinous, volatile, wacky, wandering, wanton, wavering,
      wavery, wavy, wayward, whimsical, wishy-washy

    

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