Synonyms of cockeyed

cockeyed

adjective

ˈkäk-ˌīd 

1

as in tilted

inclined or twisted to one side

rakishly wears his hat a little cockeyed

Synonyms & Similar Words

• tilted
• crooked
• uneven
• oblique
• skewed
• lopsided
• slanted
• tipping
• pitched
• askew
• slanting
• listing
• awry
• out of plumb
• distorted
• off-kilter
• crazy
• aslant
• slantwise
• atilt
• asymmetrical
• cock-a-hoop
• unbalanced
• unsymmetrical
• contorted
• disordered
• irregular

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• straight
• level
• uniform
• even
• regular
• orderly
• balanced
• symmetrical
• ordered

2

as in foolish

showing or marked by a lack of good sense or judgment

a cockeyed scheme to build a shopping mall in the middle of nowhere

Synonyms & Similar Words

• foolish
• stupid
• silly
• absurd
• mad
• insane
• crazy
• daffy
• idiotic
• irrational
• harebrained
• lunatic
• dippy
• crackpot
• zany
• loony
• kooky
• screwball
• preposterous
• barmy
• dumb
• wacky
• fool
• wacko
• nutty
• batty
• ridiculous
• simple
• fatuous
• cuckoo
• dotty
• unreasoning
• jerky
• meshuga
• sappy
• crackbrained
• unreasonable
• bubbleheaded
• gaga
• daft
• lunkheaded
• simpleminded
• brainless
• weak
• nonsensical
• witless
• inept
• loony tunes
• half-witted
• half-baked
• asinine
• out to lunch
• unwise
• slow
• balmy
• senseless
• weak-minded
• featherheaded
• pinheaded
• dopey
• unreasoned
• fruity
• softheaded
• dunderheaded
• doltish
• dense
• obtuse
• moronic
• dim
• thoughtless
• opaque
• tomfool
• dull
• illogical
• oafish
• gormless
• vacuous
• clueless
• unintelligent
• thickheaded
• imbecile
• lamebrain
• fallacious
• dorky
• knuckleheaded
• nonrational
• mindless
• brain-dead
• chuckleheaded
• slow-witted
• invalid
• birdbrained
• thick
• feebleminded
• unsound
• airheaded
• farcical
• empty-headed
• ludicrous
• clownish
• dim-witted
• boobish
• soft
• surd
• chowderheaded
• laughable
• buffoonish
• notional
• unconsidered
• ill-advised

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• sound
• judicious
• wise
• prudent
• sensible
• sane
• intelligent
• bright
• clever
• sagacious
• reasonable
• smart
• logical
• valid
• rational
• sage
• sapient
• brainy
• well-advised

3

as in drunken

being under the influence of alcohol

don't trust a thing that Wilson tells you when he's cockeyed

Synonyms & Similar Words

• drunken
• drunk
• fried
• wet
• impaired
• blind
• wasted
• plastered
• bombed
• crocked
• gassed
• loaded
• tipsy
• besotted
• inebriated
• lit
• sottish
• soused
• stiff
• pie-eyed
• blotto
• boozy
• sozzled
• stewed
• smashed
• under the influence
• inebriate
• potted
• juiced
• hammered
• sloshed
• ripped
• tanked
• pickled
• blasted
• intoxicated
• looped
• under the weather
• stoned
• squiffed
• stinking
• oiled
• wiped out
• tight
• three sheets in the wind
• blitzed
• alcoholic
• canned
• in the bag
• tiddly
• high
• lit up
• in one's cups
• maudlin
• dopey
• beery
• crapulous
• befuddled
• stupefied
• dissolute
• debauched
• rocky
• strung out
• dissipated
• bleary-eyed
• bibulous
• dipsomaniacal

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• straight
• sober
• dry
• temperate
• level
• abstemious
• cool
• steady
• teetotal
• clearheaded
• abstinent

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of cockeyed

Gunn the cockeyed empathetic optimist didn’t make his public debut until the first Guardians of the Galaxy. — Matt Zoller Seitz, Vulture, 31 Oct. 2025

Even Marty, one of the nicer guys on display in Coen and Cooke’s cockeyed crime movie, hits on Honey with an annoying relentlessness. — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 20 Aug. 2025

Comprised primarily of covers of Memphis non-hits, Behind the Magnolia Curtain is a bizarre record, its confrontational lack of chops intensifying its cockeyed charisma and ribaldry. — Stephen M. Deusner, Pitchfork, 8 Feb. 2026

But then come the passages of cockeyed brilliance—such as this one, yoking Nicholas’s philosophical meditation on the nature of subjective perception to the 1960s sitcom Gilligan’s Island. — Scott Stossel, The Atlantic, 9 Sep. 2025