Synonyms of cuckoo

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adjective

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1

as in lunatic

having or showing a very abnormal or sick state of mind

a cuckoo woman who wandered around town carefully gathering up useless trash

Synonyms & Similar Words

• lunatic
• nuts
• psychotic
• mad
• gaga
• insane
• maniac
• crazy
• mental
• psycho
• maniacal
• paranoid
• wacko
• disturbed
• loony
• crazed
• bonkers
• batty
• demented
• looney
• deranged
• nutty
• unhinged
• bats
• cracked
• daffy
• loco
• ballistic
• crackpot
• moonstruck
• daft
• barmy
• whacko
• strange
• haywire
• certifiable
• bughouse
• crackers
• around the bend
• paranoidal
• kooky
• wacky
• bedlam
• whacky
• eccentric
• meshuga
• irrational
• foolish
• screwy
• unbalanced
• kookie
• obsessed
• scatty
• depressed
• fruity
• brainsick
• meshugah
• loony tunes
• looney tunes
• odd
• meshuggah
• meshugge
• crackbrained
• fey
• unsound
• out to lunch
• neurotic
• off
• loopy
• wud
• queer
• balmy
• paranoiac
• schizoid
• non compos mentis
• frantic
• distraught
• cranky
• dotty
• hysterical
• schizophrenic
• unreasonable
• delusional
• nuclear
• hysteric
• delusionary
• bananas
• touched
• out of one's mind
• tetched
• delirious
• off one's gourd
• oddball
• sociopathic
• off one's rocker
• berserk
• disordered
• aberrant
• out of one's head
• ape
• distracted
• off one's head
• potty
• witless
• paranoic
• raving
• pixilated
• pixillated
• obsessive-compulsive
• amok
• monomaniac
• teched
• senseless
• monomaniacal
• frenzied
• amuck
• fixated
• wigged-out

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• sound
• sane
• compos mentis
• balanced
• reasonable
• rational
• wise
• clear
• normal
• uncrazy
• sensible
• lucid
• judicious
• healthy
• well-adjusted
• unneurotic

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• sound
• sane
• compos mentis
• balanced
• reasonable
• rational
• wise
• clear
• normal
• uncrazy
• sensible
• lucid
• judicious
• healthy
• well-adjusted
• unneurotic

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2

as in mad

showing or marked by a lack of good sense or judgment

offered a completely cuckoo suggestion for using the defunct strip mall

Synonyms & Similar Words

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

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

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

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

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cuckoo

2 of 2

noun

1

as in goose

a person who lacks good sense or judgment

one cuckoo at the campground tried to boil soup in a plastic cup

Synonyms & Similar Words

• lunatic
• goose
• fool
• nut
• idiot
• monkey
• moron
• booby
• turkey
• nutcase
• ninny
• simpleton
• loser
• jackass
• dingbat
• ding-dong
• git
• featherhead
• berk
• doofus
• charlie
• nitwit
• mooncalf
• ding-a-ling
• simp
• ninnyhammer
• nincompoop
• half-wit
• dipstick
• donkey
• madman
• dummy
• charley
• nit
• madwoman
• yo-yo
• daredevil
• imbecile
• dodo
• dolt
• blockhead
• birdbrain
• pinhead
• ignoramus
• dunce
• knucklehead
• airhead
• goon
• gander
• crackpot
• weirdo
• scatterbrain
• screwball
• numskull
• numbskull
• dope
• kook
• schnook
• dork
• schlump
• chump
• crank
• character
• oddball
• schlemiel
• dupe
• butt
• know-nothing
• codger
• fathead
• stock
• mockery
• dumbbell
• schlub
• laughingstock
• shlemiel
• featherbrain
• shlub
• crackbrain

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• genius
• sage
• brain
• thinker

• genius
• sage
• brain
• thinker

2

as in silly

a silly flighty person

didn't want to be among those cuckoos who race around the mall the day before Christmas

Synonyms & Similar Words

• goose
• silly
• birdbrain
• fool
• ditz
• flibbertigibbet
• scatterbrain
• featherhead
• nitwit
• simpleton
• rattlebrain
• featherbrain
• softhead

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• sobersides

• sobersides

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