LOONY TUNES Synonyms: 140 Similar and Opposite Words

loony tunes

adjective

variants or looney tunes

Definition of loony tunes

as in stupid

showing or marked by a lack of good sense or judgment Nobody could tell whether she was serious with that loony tunes idea she put forward.

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Recent Examples of loony tunes Sometimes first Tribals can be kind of bonkers if tribe lines are still being drawn, or if two people are really not getting along, or if someone is really loony tunes, or someone else is really fighting hard to stay. — Dalton Ross, Entertainment Weekly, 25 Sep. 2025 Then, the 130-pounders started their combat, and Cecelia went loony tunes. — Star Tribune, 19 Dec. 2020

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Adjective

Whatever to the silly old poem and whatever to the ceremony and all its stupid little details and whatever to all the rules for daughters.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 22 Sep. 2026
Militarizing an arch in front of the Memorial Bridge is an even more dangerous and stupid idea than turning a ballroom into a bastion.

— Tom Nichols, The Atlantic, 20 Sep. 2026

Definition of stupid

Adjective

With Oracle having lost more than $20 billion in stock-market value today, this appears to be penny-wise and pound foolish.

— Liz Hoffman, semafor.com, 24 Sep. 2026
While the era’s bust eventually brought most of those ventures to an end, Brown said the experience taught him not to let the fear of failure—or looking foolish—get in the way.

— Preston Fore, Fortune, 20 Sep. 2026

Definition of foolish

Adjective

Whatever to the silly old poem and whatever to the ceremony and all its stupid little details and whatever to all the rules for daughters.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 22 Sep. 2026
His faith in the transformative power of a deeply silly musical about nosy neighbors provides the film with its strongest anchor of relatable humanity.

— Joe Reid, Vulture, 21 Sep. 2026

Definition of silly

Adjective

To Hitchcock, the indelible feature of Roosevelt’s Presidency was his desire to protect democratic norms and processes amid crises, even as critics accused him of being a power-mad dictator or a Communist sympathizer.

— Beverly Gage, New Yorker, 28 Sep. 2026
The video has so many of Taylor’s favorite tropes—weddings that turn into a mess, metaphorically breaking glass, red wine spilling, mad women, chatty ghosts, symbolic houses.

— Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 28 Sep. 2026

Definition of mad

Adjective

Of course now, in the comfort of modernity, the whole idea seems absurd.

— Jason O'Bryan, Robb Report, 19 Sep. 2026
Saying white players such as Clark or Bueckers should pay homage to their Black peers is as absurd as saying Steph Curry and Jalen Brunson should pay homage to their tall peers.

— Matt Calkins OutKick, FOXNews.com, 19 Sep. 2026

Definition of absurd

Adjective

With just six 30-minute episodes per season (by design), some of these idiotic run-on stories inevitably hit the cutting room floor.

— Tony Maglio, HollywoodReporter, 8 Sep. 2026
To Tommy, Anna and Molly are twittering encumbrances, idiotic in their insistence on good works and the good of man, their endless remorseful hedgings about the Communist Party.

— Cynthia Zarin, Harpers Magazine, 4 Aug. 2026

Definition of idiotic

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