MESHUGA Synonyms: 138 Similar and Opposite Words

meshuga

adjective

mə-ˈshu̇-gə

variants or meshugge also meshugah or meshuggah

Definition of meshuga

as in stupid

showing or marked by a lack of good sense or judgment You've got to be meshuga if you think she is going to go out with you.

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Adjective

As stupid and trad as the wife-in-the-kitchen expectation is, that’s just a surface issue.

— Emma Sharpe, Vulture, 4 Nov. 2026
Billionaires presumably didn't become billionaires by being stupid, and only the supremely stupid could fail to see what's coming in California.

— Bradley Gitz, Arkansas Online, 2 Nov. 2026

Definition of stupid

Adjective

In our era of No Kings rallies, the contemporary political relevance of a mad ruler demanding public displays of fealty is so obvious that Prikryl doesn’t need to press the point very hard.

— Langdon Hammer, New Yorker, 2 Nov. 2026
Heather may or may not be mad that Tamra took selfies with Jenn and not with her.

— Brian Moylan, Vulture, 30 Oct. 2026

Definition of mad

Adjective

At the start of this election cycle, the notion that Democrats would seriously compete in such deep-red bastions as Kansas, Mississippi, South Carolina and Texas would have seemed absurd.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 4 Nov. 2026
For the second of two F--- Cancer gigs, Reynoso has racked up a gloriously absurd 13 local bands on one madcap, rapid-fire club bill, where each will swarm the stage rig to plug in and play 10-minute sets before giving way to the next act.

— Aaron Davis, Sacbee.com, 1 Nov. 2026

Definition of absurd

Adjective

Against Alabama, with 102,000 lunatic fans, Neyland might as well have been the Colosseum.

— Austin Evans, Southern Living, 19 Oct. 2026
Her follow up, Said the Dead—in which Ní Ghríofa sets out to restore the voices of a handful of women who were confined to a lunatic asylum in Victorian-era Cork—is every bit as eerie, tender, and beautiful.

— Emily Temple, Literary Hub, 8 Sep. 2026

Definition of lunatic

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