DAFFY Synonyms: 141 Similar and Opposite Words

daffy

adjective

ˈda-fē

Definition of daffy next

as in silly

showing or marked by a lack of good sense or judgment their daffy antics made generations of movie audiences laugh

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Recent Examples of daffy The Jets and their daffy owner, Woody Johnson, have a long history of dysfunction. —

Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Nov. 2025 Rising through a manhole in the middle of a dark New York alley populated with drag queens and the colorful characters of Lower Manhattan, the ever-blond Carpenter sank into her daffy-meets-sultry routine. —

Melissa Ruggieri, USA Today, 8 Sep. 2025 Brooks just takes them in some delightfully daffy (and occasionally deeply scary) new directions. —

Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 23 July 2025 His performance as daffy himbo Chad Feldheimer in the Coen Brothers' Burn After Reading (2008), for example, is an essential entry in his oeuvre. —

Randall Colburn, EW.com, 3 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for daffy

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Menu references to ancient reptiles — plus the brand’s silly mascot, a dinosaur in a toque — make fast food feel more like fun food.

— Michael Deeds, Idaho Statesman, 16 Apr. 2026
What appears to be a bouncy, silly romp about a slightly surreal situation (Murray plays Phil, a weatherman reliving the same day over and over) is, at its core, actually quite deep.

— Debby Wolfinsohn, Entertainment Weekly, 13 Apr. 2026