chiefly British, informal
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Recent Examples of daft The belief that normal service had resumed was daft. Tim Ellis, Forbes.com, 30 June 2025 Heckerling's 1995 film, a loose adaptation of Jane Austen's witty novel of young love, Emma, centers on Silverstone's sunny, good-hearted, yet at times slightly daft heroine. Ryan Coleman, EW.com, 17 Apr. 2025 Double-zero at midnight is my personal roulette ritual, if anybody’s daft enough to follow my thoroughly unscientific methodology. David Weiss, Forbes, 7 Mar. 2025 Welcome to one of football’s daftest new traditions. Tim Spiers, The Athletic, 17 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for daft
Recent Examples of Synonyms for daft
Adjective
  • And when Sam cooks up a truly stupid scheme to make some quick cash, there’s little doubt a heavy like Mickey isn’t going to like it.
    Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 12 Sep. 2025
  • There's a fine line between stupid and clever, indeed.
    Jordan Hoffman, Entertainment Weekly, 12 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Awards are both mad and lovely.
    Max Goldbart, Deadline, 16 Sep. 2025
  • And of course, mad love and respect to Adam Yauch, Oscilloscope’s co-founder, filmmaker and Beastie Boy forever.
    Brent Lang, Variety, 16 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Mea Culpa is Perry at his most knowingly silly, and a throwback to erotic thrillers of decades past.
    Declan Gallagher, Entertainment Weekly, 14 Sep. 2025
  • For every community of mass-shooter fandoms, there is another that is silly, joyous, productive, or totally harmless.
    Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 12 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Malik Heath’s insane toe-tap grab on the sideline, which was reversed after video replay review, was a massive 37-yard swing for the Packers during the drive.
    Scott Thompson, FOXNews.com, 12 Sep. 2025
  • None of their other work, arguably, has had the seismic impact or inspires the same insane quotability as This Is Spinal Tap.
    David Fear, Rolling Stone, 12 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • But giving someone as historically great as Derrick Henry added motivation, certainly may prove to be a foolish decision from Delpit.
    Reice Shipley, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 Sep. 2025
  • There’s highly capable support in the cast from the unfailingly superb Vázquez, emanating gravitas, humanity and barely contained anger at the increasing frequency and spread of wildfires and the foolish refusal of those in power to address the growing threat.
    David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 6 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Brown's attorneys had said Brown could at times appear psychotic.
    Kevin Grasha, Cincinnati Enquirer, 5 Sep. 2025
  • Psychologists and psychiatrists are scrambling to better understand how use of chatbots can fuel delusions and drive psychotic episodes.
    Amy Feldman, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • There’s no denying that catfish noodling is an absurd sport.
    Natalie Krebs, Outdoor Life, 11 Sep. 2025
  • Barely any other media in recent times has given me an instant shock of glee or revulsion like this absurd anarcho-cartoon being stretched and squeezed to its most grotesque and wholesome clickbait limits.
    Kieran Press-Reynolds, Pitchfork, 10 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • The highlight of the maze was the children’s bedroom scene with moving furniture and a maniacal clown sliding out from underneath the bed.
    Brady MacDonald, Oc Register, 5 Sep. 2025
  • Wisecracking, cackling mini-maniac Teddy was the daredevil of the group.
    Sezin Devi Koehler September 1, EW.com, 1 Sep. 2025

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“Daft.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/daft. Accessed 19 Sep. 2025.

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