Examples of daft in a Sentence
Your idea seems a bit daft to me.
She looked at us as if we'd gone daft.
Recent Examples of daft from the Web
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The cracking of the mystery, at the conclusion of Gemini, is daft and unsatisfying, but no matter.
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Williams isn’t spacey or unfocused, daft or delusional.
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That effort may seem daft, as such vibrations constitute heat, which obliterates delicate quantum states.
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In most administrations, such daft behaviour would be a sacking offence.
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What looks a daft choice to most economists made perfect sense to Richard Thaler, who on October 9th was awarded the Nobel prize for economics for his work in behavioural economics.
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This, though, is a whole other thing, more like the Jean Paul Gaultier costumes in The Fifth Element, Besson’s daft 1997 sci-fi opera.
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Miller is spot on and delightfully funny as the seemingly daft court counselor Polonius, in many ways the antithesis of Hamlet’s absent father and uncaring uncle.
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One of the telltale signs of white supremacy is the assertion that black people are too daft to comprehend symbols of white supremacy.
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daft Synonyms
Synonyms
absurd, asinine, balmy, brainless, cockeyed, crackpot, crazy, cuckoo, daffy, dippy, dotty, fatuous, featherheaded, fool, foolish, half-baked, half-witted, harebrained, inept, insane, jerky, kooky (also kookie), loony (also looney), lunatic, lunkheaded, mad, nonsensical, nutty, preposterous, sappy, screwball, senseless, silly, simpleminded, stupid, tomfool, unwise, wacky (also whacky), weak-minded, witless, zany;
Related Words
airheaded, birdbrained, brain-dead, chowderheaded, chuckleheaded, clueless, dense, dim, dim-witted, doltish, dopey (also dopy), dorky [slang], dull, dumb, dunderheaded, empty-headed, fatuous, feebleminded, idiotic (also idiotical), imbecile (or imbecilic), knuckleheaded, lamebrain (or lamebrained), mindless, moronic, oafish, obtuse, opaque, pinheaded, simple, slow, slow-witted, soft, softheaded, thoughtless, thick, thickheaded, unintelligent, vacuous, witless;
fallacious, illogical, invalid, irrational, unreasonable, unreasoning, unsound, weak;
Phrases
out to lunch;
DAFT Defined for English Language Learners
Definition of daft for English Language Learners
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: strange often in a way that is funny
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: crazy or foolish
DAFT Defined for Kids
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