DAFFY Synonyms: 141 Similar and Opposite Words

daffy

adjective

ˈda-fē

Definition of daffy

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 That Directors’ Fortnight entry slightly overloaded on farcical complications but breezed along on the script’s daffy humor, its underlying sweetness and the director’s pleasingly light touch. — David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 12 May 2026 That person — a sunny, daffy, confection of trashy Southern ridiculousness — is just not a mean person. — Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 14 Mar. 2026 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 See All Example Sentences for daffy

Recent Examples of Synonyms for daffy

Adjective

Sevigny holds firm to Tatum’s hard-to-love jerkishness, which helps smooth over the serious arguments that can turn inadvertently silly (and amplifies the purely silly ones).

— Ben Travers, IndieWire, 9 July 2026
The post also included a sweet selfie with her two younger sons, with Mateo smiling widely and Ciro making a silly face for the camera.

— Charna Flam, PEOPLE, 8 July 2026

Definition of silly

Adjective

Even when Romanzy goes off on how stupid and ugly Caleb is — and gossips that his parents abandoned him because something must be wrong with him — Mary goes along with it.

— Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 11 July 2026
Shockingly, the letter seems to be pushing for a return to standardized tests by, in effect, arguing that a growing percentage of their students are simply too stupid to succeed, no matter what professors do.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 8 July 2026

Definition of stupid

Adjective

Johnson continued this week to push for his foolish and counterproductive desire to impose a $33-per-month tax on each Chicago job generated by the city’s largest private-sector employers.

— The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 10 July 2026
As is, this is a foolish thriller that prompts the occasional snicker but not much more.

— Randy Myers, Mercury News, 9 July 2026

Definition of foolish

Adjective

Space startup activity has been growing for years, with new companies hitting unicorn valuations at a pace that would have seemed absurd five years ago.

— Charlotte Kiang, Forbes.com, 9 July 2026
That the Fendons don’t think to immediately tell their devastated adult son, Harry (Craig Roberts), that his dad is still alive is only the first delightfully absurd wrinkle in this mischievous black comedy.

— Judy Berman, Time, 8 July 2026

Definition of absurd

Adjective

England’s 2-1 victory against Mexico — and that insane Azteca Stadium crowd — also was richly deserved.

— Miami Herald, Miami Herald, 7 July 2026
Allowing Trump to declare insane levels of tariffs would have been really bad for the economy and bad for Republicans.

— Isaac Chotiner, New Yorker, 6 July 2026

Definition of insane

Adjective

Over the last few years, there are these sounds that have appeared in certain towns that have driven people mad, that’s actually happening.

— Reshma Gopaldas, IndieWire, 9 July 2026
The scene played out across the soccer-mad nation as Egypt faced the defending World Cup champion in the round-of-16 fixture in Atlanta.

— ABC News, ABC News, 7 July 2026

Definition of mad

Adjective

That’s been an idiotic trope for too long — that participating in the business side of it taints you.

— Marc Weingarten, Los Angeles Times, 8 June 2026
Red-Bodied Dog Tick Has your idiotic dog wandered onto a bucolic patch of grass that hasn’t been freshly treated with toxins?

— Jay Ruttenberg, New Yorker, 8 June 2026

Definition of idiotic

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