kooky

adjective

ˈkü-kē 

variants or less commonly kookie

kookier; kookiest

: having the characteristics of a kook : offbeat, eccentric

kookiness noun

Synonyms of kooky

• bizarre
• funny
• strange
• weird
• odd
• curious
• peculiar
• eccentric
• erratic
• crazy
• remarkable

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

Recent Examples on the Web

Bob Mackie, the fashion designer whose visually provocative Hollywood style defined glamour for the 1970s -- including putting Carol Burnett in some of her kookiest getups and Cher in her raciest ones -- died Monday. — Mark Kennedy The Associated Press, Arkansas Online, 15 Sep. 2026

Camp’s turn here as a kooky neighbor who stumbles into an unexpected romance is exactly the kind of role that gets a room talking (and laughing). — Clayton Davis, Variety, 4 Sep. 2026

What better way to do so than to remember Samson’s kooky girlfriend from college who was into competitive duck herding? — Judith Martin, Mercury News, 4 Sep. 2026

Stockard Channing and Dianne Wiest are back, too, as their kooky aunts, while Kidman’s character is now the kooky aunt to Bullock’s on-screen daughters, Joey King and Maisie Williams. — Jack Smart, PEOPLE, 1 Sep. 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1957, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for kooky

• spooky