kooky
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Synonyms & Antonyms for kooky
Synonyms
absurd, asinine, balmy, brainless, cockeyed, crackpot, crazy, cuckoo, daffy, daft, dippy, dotty, fatuous, featherheaded, fool, foolish, half-baked, half-witted, harebrained, inept, insane, jerky, loony (also looney), lunatic, lunkheaded, mad, nonsensical, nutty, preposterous, sappy, screwball, senseless, silly, simpleminded, stupid, tomfool, unwise, wacky (also whacky), weak-minded, witless, zany
Antonyms
judicious, prudent, sagacious, sage, sane, sapient, sensible, sound, wise
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In it, an old, retired, and slightly kooky nobleman named Alonso Quixano reads too many chivalric romances. — Alissa Wilkinson, Vox, "The Man Who Killed Don Quixote’s long, possibly cursed journey to the big screen, explained," 9 May 2018 The $147,500 i8 is a stunning two-door coupe plug-in hybrid, the $44,450 i3 a cool but kooky four-seater made of carbon fiber and featuring suicide rear doors, with a two-cylinder backup generator as a range extender. — Jack Stewart, WIRED, "BMW's New Electric SUV Looks Shockingly Normal," 25 Apr. 2018 Maclain Way: Everyone just really dismissed the story as just this bizarre, kooky cult. — Lincoln Michel, GQ, "The Wild Wild Country Directors Explain How They Made Their Shocking Cult Documentary," 29 Mar. 2018 There's something almost poetic about Jones filling his audience with kooky supplement products after poisoning their minds with Sandy Hook conspiracy theories. — Jack Holmes, Esquire, "John Oliver Spotted the Funniest (and Most Sinister) Part of Alex Jones' Shtick," 31 July 2017These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'kooky.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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