WACK Synonyms: 177 Similar and Opposite Words

wack

adjective

ˈwak

Definition of wack

slang

as in wrong

falling short of a standard that movie was wack, even by the standards of popcorn flicks

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Recent Examples of wack Nathan Fielder Is Keeping It Real Nathan Fielder was pretty wack this week on Jimmy Kimmel Live! — Vulture, 17 Nov. 2023 Lillard couldn’t be both the good locker room guy and try to get his wack teammates shipped out of town. — Corbin Smith, Rolling Stone, 28 Sep. 2023 Tenant shall refrain from posting aggressive notes in building common areas about the wack job in Apartment 2B. — Sam Spero, The New Yorker, 4 Sep. 2023 When retrograde is in full swing everything is out of wack, so this is a good way to keep things straight. — Anna Kaufman, USA TODAY, 23 Aug. 2023 See All Example Sentences for wack

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Adjective

First, the medals were the wrong colour; this was the ‘Bronze Final’ after all.

— Jack Pitt-Brooke, New York Times, 19 July 2026
That turned out to be wrong for a meaningful minority of them, whose brains were generating signals our methods were not sensitive enough to pick up.

— Torie Bosch, STAT, 18 July 2026

Definition of wrong

Adjective

Critics say such plans are wholly unacceptable because light pollution from so many large, bright satellites would radically degrade views of the night sky.

— Mary Randolph, Scientific American, 16 July 2026
For the union, this is unacceptable and yet another issue their members are facing.

— Carmela Karcher, CBS News, 14 July 2026

Definition of unacceptable

Adjective

Madrid had a poor 2024-25, failing to win the Spanish title or the Champions League, but Mbappe still scored 42 goals in 44 appearances.

— Tim Spiers, New York Times, 21 July 2026
Using Neanderthal cranium shapes to estimate specific brain regions’ volume, some investigators claimed to see signs of a mind with feeble linguistic abilities, poor executive function and an unremarkable memory.

— Cody Cottier, Scientific American, 20 July 2026

Definition of poor

Adjective

Shouldn’t Tamra take that as a sign to repair her relationships with the women rather than alienate the one person who is willing to look past her bad behavior?

— Brian Moylan, Vulture, 17 July 2026
That statistic shows that hotels did worse with the World Cup than without it initially.

— Miami Herald, Miami Herald, 17 July 2026

Definition of bad

Adjective

The Supreme Judicial Court later concluded that the Attorney General’s summary was legally deficient because of the language her office inserted — and removed the question from the ballot.

— Robert Cordy, Boston Herald, 19 July 2026
The same logic would apply to a service member who is truly hormone deficient — replacement therapy could help.

— Dr. Jamin Brahmbhatt, CNN Money, 16 July 2026

Definition of deficient

Adjective

Never in my lifetime has pathetic nostalgia for the white man’s republic been closer to the center of power.

— Brian DeLay, Mercury News, 4 July 2026
Instagram Plus is social media’s newest low—a company preying on our most pathetic impulses, for the price of a small iced coffee.

— Annie Joy Williams, The Atlantic, 28 June 2026

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