SCREWY Synonyms: 107 Similar and Opposite Words

screwy

adjective

ˈskrü-ē

Definition of screwy

as in bizarre

different from the ordinary in a way that causes curiosity or suspicion the counterfeit bills are poorly done and would look screwy to even the untrained eye

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Recent Examples of screwy In screenwriters Alexandre Rockwell and Tim Kissel’s screwy scenario, filmmaker wannabee Adolpho Rollo (Steve Buscemi) places a classified ad in a New Jersey rag offering his 500-page spec script for sale. — Duane Byrge, HollywoodReporter, 13 Jan. 2026 In Cat’s Cradle, Vonnegut tweaks this trope to fit his signature, screwy black comedy. — M. L. Rio, The Atlantic, 19 Nov. 2025 Pricing for five or fewer devices is a little screwy. — PC Magazine, 20 Aug. 2025 In the screwy arithmetic of my mind, more time meant more aspiration. — Dan Leach july 3, Literary Hub, 3 July 2025 See All Example Sentences for screwy

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Adjective

The appeal of Bleak House, for instance, is bound up in its bad actors and bizarre names, less so the action.

— Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 30 Oct. 2026
The Seaside Police Department received the tip about Bumper’s bizarre breakfast invoice in August.

— Clara Harter, Los Angeles Times, 30 Oct. 2026

Definition of bizarre

Adjective

Alexi’s script gets to the heart of the strange, necessary bonds between humans and animals.

— Alex Ritman, Variety, 30 Oct. 2026
Something in the movement of his hands, too fast, too smooth, too precise, and something in the play of the light and shadow across his knuckles, reveals that something strange is at work.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 30 Oct. 2026

Definition of strange

Adjective

Divorced from the context of a map, Texas' congressional districts might just look like a collection of funny shapes.

— CBS News, CBS News, 28 Oct. 2026
China did not find anything funny about the French star laughing at a meme of Mao, the communist dictator whose regime resulted in tens of millions of deaths.

— Mark Harris OutKick, FOXNews.com, 28 Oct. 2026

Definition of funny

Adjective

Anyway, aside from the odd finish, what the Bowl audience got in the broader sense was far from an anticlimax in the overall scheme of things.

— Chris Willman, Variety, 30 Oct. 2026
His other weapon was his voice, at once coldly precise and dangerously soft; never before had Malkovich’s distinctly odd cadences sounded so menacing.

— Justin Chang, New Yorker, 30 Oct. 2026

Definition of odd

Adjective

Climate change also brings increasingly erratic storm systems, heat and rainfall patterns that leave standing water, creating conditions ideal for mosquitoes to breed.

— Kylee Rae Noel, The Conversation, 27 Oct. 2026
Baseball is an ensemble game, a wildly erratic sport to predict.

— Brady Brickner-Wood, New Yorker, 26 Oct. 2026

Definition of erratic

Adjective

Mayfield emerged with a quarterback stat line that would have looked peculiar even in football’s leather-helmet era.

— Francesca Ebel, Washington Post, 2 Nov. 2026
The prosecution, a rare Department of Justice criminal case against a former employee, revisits a tangled and peculiar saga that roiled the final weeks of the 2020 race.

— Eric Tucker, Los Angeles Times, 23 Oct. 2026

Definition of peculiar

Adjective

Research shows that a curious mindset can cultivate positive emotions and reduce worry.

— Juli Fraga, Time, 29 Oct. 2026
None of my companions, mostly ocean-curious thirty-something Californians from the Bay and beyond, have been urchin foraging before, but their coolers and bags are soon brimming.

— Joseph Ogilvy, Condé Nast Traveler, 28 Oct. 2026

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