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

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

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

Despite her moods, which could be epic, Ann typically evinced a kind of cockeyed pluck, a hummingbird baseline that stood in contrast to mania. — Ned Zeman, Outside, 14 Nov. 2021