Synonyms of kooky

kooky

adjective

ˈkü-kē 

variants also kookie

1

as in bizarre

different from the ordinary in a way that causes curiosity or suspicion

I'm not sure that someone with such kooky ideas on biology should be teaching the subject to high schoolers

Synonyms & Similar Words

• bizarre
• weird
• funny
• strange
• curious
• odd
• wild
• remarkable
• crazy
• peculiar
• fantastical
• eccentric
• quirky
• wacky
• off-the-wall
• queer
• unique
• offbeat
• whacky
• outstanding
• funky
• outlandish
• kinky
• quaint
• fantastic
• prominent
• screwy
• outré
• unconventional
• out-of-the-way
• singular
• weirdo
• far-out
• way-out
• erratic
• off-kilter
• bizarro
• unusual
• cranky
• outrageous
• rum
• queerish
• spaced-out
• freaky
• extraordinary
• abnormal
• striking
• freakish
• uncommon
• flaky
• aberrant
• salient
• freak
• out-there
• atypical
• phantasmagoric
• rare
• idiosyncratic
• noticeable
• phenomenal
• phantasmagorical
• notable
• puzzling
• conspicuous
• unorthodox
• unwonted
• perplexing
• nonconformist
• baffling
• shocking
• crotchety
• confounding
• atrocious
• addlepated
• mystifying
• bewildering
• uncustomary
• nonmainstream

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• normal
• typical
• usual
• ordinary
• standard
• average
• prosaic
• conservative
• routine
• everyday
• garden
• commonplace
• conventional
• unremarkable
• familiar
• unexceptional
• run-of-the-mill
• predictable
• workaday
• common
• regular
• conformist
• frequent
• customary
• expected
• habitual
• knee-jerk
• wonted

2

as in psychotic

having or showing a very abnormal or sick state of mind

if you think that drugs aren't bad for you, you haven't met that guy's kooky friends

Synonyms & Similar Words

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

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

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

3

as in silly

showing or marked by a lack of good sense or judgment

a kooky bicyclist who stubbornly refuses to wear a helmet

that was a kooky thing to do

Synonyms & Similar Words

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

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

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

Examples of kooky in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

In its early days, being online often felt like stumbling onto someone’s kooky basement party. —Zoë Bernard, Vox, 5 Aug. 2024

The Egg McMuffin was originally served open-faced, which Kroc thought kooky. —Tim Carman, Washington Post, 25 July 2024

Learn More › For plenty of outdoorsmen and women, ultralight backpacking conjures up a particularly kooky image. —Laura Lancaster, Outdoor Life, 18 July 2024

The Last Repair Shop, an L.A. Times documentary about young musicians and the kooky adults who fix their instruments for free, is the better of the pair, and has the hometown advantage. —Nate Jones, Vulture, 8 Mar. 2024