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wacky
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective wacky has 2 senses
- wacky(s = adj.all) cockamamie, cockamamy, goofy, sappy, silly, whacky, zany - ludicrous, foolish; "gave me a cockamamie reason for not going"; "wore a goofy hat"; "a silly idea"; "some wacky plan for selling more books"
- wacky(s = adj.all) around the bend, balmy, barmy, bats, batty, bonkers, buggy, cracked, crackers, daft, dotty, fruity, haywire, kookie, kooky, loco, loony, loopy, nuts, nutty, round the bend, whacky - informal or slang terms for mentally irregular; "it used to drive my husband balmy"
CIDE DICTIONARY
wacky, n. [G. wacke, MHG. wacke a large stone, OHG. waggo a pebble.].
A soft, earthy, dark-colored rock or clay derived from the alteration of basalt. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
wacky, adj. & n. (also whacky) sl.
--adj. (-ier, -iest) crazy.
--n. (pl. -ies) a crazy person.
--adj. (-ier, -iest) crazy.
--n. (pl. -ies) a crazy person.
Derivative
wackily adv. wackiness n.
Etymology
orig. dial., = left-handed, f. WHACK
THESAURUS
wacky
abnormal, absurd, anomalous, apish, asinine, balmy, bananas, barmy, bats, batty, beany, befooled, beguiled, besotted, bonkers, brainless, buffoonish, buggy, bughouse, bugs, cockeyed, cracked, crackers, crank, crankish, cranky, crazed, crazy, credulous, crotchety, cuckoo, daffy, daft, dazed, demented, deranged, deviant, deviative, different, dippy, divergent, dizzy, doting, dotty, dumb, eccentric, erratic, exceptional, fatuitous, fatuous, fey, flaky, flipped, fond, fool, foolheaded, foolish, freaked-out, freakish, fruitcakey, fruity, fuddled, funny, futile, gaga, goofy, gulled, harebrained, haywire, idiocratic, idiosyncratic, idiotic, imbecile, inane, inept, infatuated, insane, irregular, just plain nuts, kinky, kooky, loony, loopy, lunatic, mad, maggoty, maudlin, moronic, nuts, nutty, odd, oddball, off the hinges, off the track, off the wall, peculiar, potty, preposterous, queer, quirky, round the bend, sappy, screwball, screwballs, screwy, senseless, sentimental, silly, singular, slaphappy, strange, stupid, thoughtless, twisted, unconventional, unnatural, wet, whimsical, witless
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