as in eccentric
a person of odd or whimsical habits
if you insist on painting your house bright orange, everyone will assume you are a kook
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Recent Examples of kook
There’s also the pregnant, endlessly vulnerable Players 222 (Jo Yu-ri) and 044 (Chae Gook-hee), who may be a mystical shaman or just an irrational, slithering kook sowing trouble and doubt.
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Tom Gliatto, People.com, 26 Dec. 2024
The kooks followed the visionaries.
—Bill Keenan, airmail.news, 17 Feb. 2024
Its inner acolytes came across, by contrast, as uncannily contrived kooks.
—Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 21 Mar. 2025
No flying monkey drive-by attacks or bug-eyed conspiracy kooks.
—Faisal Kutty, Newsweek, 10 Mar. 2025
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Tom Gliatto, People.com, 26 Dec. 2024
The kooks followed the visionaries.
—Bill Keenan, airmail.news, 17 Feb. 2024
Its inner acolytes came across, by contrast, as uncannily contrived kooks.
—Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 21 Mar. 2025
No flying monkey drive-by attacks or bug-eyed conspiracy kooks.
—Faisal Kutty, Newsweek, 10 Mar. 2025
See All Example Sentences for kook
Recent Examples of Synonyms for kook
Noun
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American eccentrics like Walters long have provided material for satirists across the pond.—
Chris Jones,
Chicago Tribune,
11 June 2025
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There are dozens upon dozens of memorable eccentrics, delusional antiheroes, blustery authority figures, sad sacks, screw-ups and all-too-lovable schmucks that populate the 12 feature films and handful of shorts directed by Wes Anderson.—
David Fear,
Rolling Stone,
28 May 2025
Noun
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Our challenge is to ensure each generation has the opportunity to engage with our stories, characters and life lessons.—
Jesse Whittock,
Deadline,
20 June 2025
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Early on, he was often cast in Latino character roles on shows like HBO’s The Wire and Fox’s Gang Related.—
Veronica Villafañe,
Forbes.com,
20 June 2025
Noun
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The father, Buddy Smart (Bryan Cranston), is the clan’s second-rate crackpot visionary, a cockeyed optimist who dresses in fuddy-duddy jackets and never knows where the next paycheck is coming from.—
Owen Gleiberman,
Variety,
11 June 2025
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It was also designed to look for evidence of continental drift – an idea that was then just starting to shift out of crackpot territory and into the scientific mainstream.—
David Szondy
June 08,
New Atlas,
8 June 2025
Noun
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Danan has crafted a loving ode to every weirdo or outsider who made a TV show (or other pop culture franchise) their entire personality.—
Maureen Lee Lenker,
EW.com,
19 May 2025
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An exclusive group of evolutionary weirdos Only a handful of organisms are known to form collective assemblages for the purpose of dispersing, similar to the nematode towers.—
Lauren Leffer,
Popular Science,
5 June 2025
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“Kook.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/kook. Accessed 2 Jul. 2025.
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