variants
or less commonly kookie
kookier; kookiest
kookiness
noun
Examples of kooky in a Sentence
I'm not sure that someone with such kooky ideas on biology should be teaching the subject to high schoolers.
if you think that drugs aren't bad for you, you haven't met that guy's kooky friends
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This season, Wednesday must navigate family, friends and old adversaries, propelling her into another year of delightfully dark and kooky mayhem.
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Tim Lammers, Forbes.com, 6 Aug. 2025
The movie is possibly loud and colorful and zany and kooky and busy enough to mask the desperation in a script that shows little imagination for the psychological hurdles of people from three different generations struggling to understand one another.
—David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 5 Aug. 2025
The film follows the story of the creepy, kooky family as an imposter infiltrates their home in an effort to swindle the Addams fortune.
—Marilyn La Jeunesse, Parents, 5 Aug. 2025
The ballerina sneaker trend is just the latest in a stretch of kooky shoe creations (who can forget the launch of Sneex?).
—Aemilia Madden, Glamour, 30 July 2025
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Tim Lammers, Forbes.com, 6 Aug. 2025
The movie is possibly loud and colorful and zany and kooky and busy enough to mask the desperation in a script that shows little imagination for the psychological hurdles of people from three different generations struggling to understand one another.
—David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 5 Aug. 2025
The film follows the story of the creepy, kooky family as an imposter infiltrates their home in an effort to swindle the Addams fortune.
—Marilyn La Jeunesse, Parents, 5 Aug. 2025
The ballerina sneaker trend is just the latest in a stretch of kooky shoe creations (who can forget the launch of Sneex?).
—Aemilia Madden, Glamour, 30 July 2025
See All Example Sentences for kooky
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“Kooky.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/kooky. Accessed 19 Aug. 2025.
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