variants or less commonly kookie
kookier; kookiest
: having the characteristics of a kook : offbeat, eccentric
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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Not that kooks would think kooky things. Chris Stirewalt, The Hill, 7 Oct. 2025 There are also instructions for plenty of creepy cocktails and even craft projects for constructing kooky table decor to match. Jillian Sederholm, Entertainment Weekly, 1 Oct. 2025 There’s all these futurist painters and designers around, kooky poets like Filippo Marinetti who could out-beat the Beatniks who’ll come two generations later. Chadd Scott, Forbes.com, 19 Sep. 2025 Known for Los Espookys, Fantasmas, and Problemista (along with some of SNL’s funnier and kookier bits of the past few years), Torres feels — kind of like Cole Escola and Chris Fleming — like a cause for hope in our mostly terrorizing present. Sara Holdren, Vulture, 11 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for kooky

Word History

First Known Use

1957, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of kooky was in 1957

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“Kooky.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/kooky. Accessed 19 Oct. 2025.

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