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screwy - 19 thesaurus results
Main Entry: screwy
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: eccentric
Synonyms: abnormal, batty, bizarre, crazy, daft, dotty, far out, flaky, funky*, irregular, mad, nutty, odd, oddball, off the wall, off-center, offbeat, outlandish, peculiar, queer, quirky, strange, uncommon, unconventional, weird, kooky, out in left field
Main Entry: abnormal
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: different from standard or norm
Synonyms: aberrant, anomalous, atypical, bizarre, curious, deviant, deviate, deviating, divergent, eccentric, exceptional, extraordinary, fantastic, funny, gross, heterodox, irregular, odd, off-color, peculiar, preternatural, queer, screwy*, strange, uncommon, unexpected, unnatural, unorthodox, unusual, weird, anomalistic, grody, heteroclite, heteromorphic, off-base, out of line, spastic
Notes: abnormal means 'not normal, different from normal' while subnormal means 'below normal'
Antonyms: customary, normal, standard, straight, usual
Main Entry: absurd
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: ridiculous, senseless
Synonyms: batty, crazy, daffy, flaky*, foolish, goofy*, idiotic, illogical, inane, incongruous, irrational, laughable, loony, ludicrous, nonsensical, nutty, off the wall, preposterous, sappy*, screwy*, silly, stupid, unreasonable, wacky, campy, dippy, fooling around, for grins, freaky, gagged up, jokey, joshing, tomfool
Antonyms: certain, logical, rational, reasonable, sensible, wise
Main Entry: comic/comical
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: amusing
Synonyms: Mickey Mouse, absurd, batty, boffo, camp*, comical, crazy, dippy, diverting, dizzy, droll, entertaining, facetious, farcical, flaky*, fool, foolheaded, for grins, freaky, funny, gelastic, goofus, goofy, gump, horse's tail, humorous, ironic, jerky, jocular, joking, joshing, laughable, light, loony, ludicrous, nutty, off the wall, priceless, ridiculous, risible, schtick, screwy, side-splitting, silly, wacky, waggish, whimsical, witty
Antonyms: sad, serious, sober, solemn, tragic, unfunny
Main Entry: daft
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: stupid; crazy
Synonyms: absurd, asinine, bedlamite, bonkers, cracked*, crackers, daffy*, demented, deranged, dopey*, flaky*, foolish, fried*, giddy, half-baked*, idiotic, in the ozone, inane, insane, lunatic, mad, mental*, nuts, nutty*, off the wall, out of one's gourd, ridiculous, screwy*, silly, simple, touched, unbalanced, unhinged*, unsound, wacky, whacko, witless
Antonyms: brainy, bright, intelligent, smart, understanding
Main Entry: flaky
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: eccentric
Synonyms: crazy, goofy*, haywire, nutty, odd, peculiar, queer, screwy, unconventional, wacky, birdy, half-cracked
Main Entry: goofy
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: silly
Synonyms: crazy, daffy*, dopey, dotty, empty-headed*, flaky*, foolish, idiotic, nutty*, screwy, stupid, wacky*, weird, dippy, ditzy, kooky
Main Entry: haywire
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: broken; crazy
Synonyms: amiss, batty, berserk, bonkers*, chaotic, confused, cracked, crazed, defective, disordered, disorganized, erratic, insane, mad, messy, nuts, out of order, psycho, screwball*, screwy*, touched*, unbalanced, unhinged, wacky, amok, flipped, in a mess, in pieces, orderless, out of whack, out to lunch, schizo, unglued
Main Entry: illogical
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: not making sense
Synonyms: absurd, cockeyed*, fallacious, false, fatuous, faulty, groundless, hollow, implausible, inconclusive, incongruous, inconsistent, incorrect, invalid, irrational, irrelevant, mad, meaningless, nutty*, off the wall, preposterous, screwy*, senseless, specious, spurious, unconnected, unreasonable, unscientific, unsound, unsubstantial, untenable, wacky, casuistic, inconsequent, not following, self-contradictory, sophistic, sophistical, unproved, without basis, without foundation
Antonyms: correct, logical, meaningful, rational, reasonable, right, sensible
Main Entry: insane
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: mentally ill; foolish
Synonyms: batty*, bizarre, cracked*, crazed, crazy, cuckoo*, daft, demented, derailed, deranged, fatuous, frenzied, idiotic, impractical, irrational, irresponsible, loony*, lunatic, mad, maniacal, mental, moonstruck, nuts*, nutty*, of unsound mind, off one's rocker, out of one's mind, paranoid, preposterous, psychopathic, psychotic, rabid, raging, raving, schizophrenic, screwy, senseless, touched, unhinged, unsettled, wild
Antonyms: balanced, healthy, rational, reasonable, sane, sound, well
Main Entry: loony
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: crazy
Synonyms: ape, barmy, batty, berserk, bonkers*, cracked, crazed, cuckoo, daffy*, daft, delirious, demented, deranged, flaky, flipped out, insane, kooky, lunatic, mad, maniacal, mental*, nuts, nutty, out of one's mind, out to lunch, psycho, screwball*, screwy*, silly, touched*, unbalanced, wacky
Main Entry: lunatic
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: crazy, mad
Synonyms: absurd, baked*, balmy*, bonkers*, cracked, crazed, daft, demented, deranged, flaky*, foolish, fried*, idiotic, insane, irrational, maniac, maniacal, nonsensical, nutty*, preposterous, psychotic, screwy*, stupid, unsound, zany, bananas, dippy, flipped out, freaked out, kooky, loco, psyched out, schizoid, whacko
Antonyms: healthy, sane, sensible
Main Entry: unbelievable
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: beyond the imagination
Synonyms: astonishing, beyond belief, cockamamie, cockeyed*, doubtful, dubious, far-fetched, fishy*, flaky*, flimsy*, for the birds, full of holes, harebrained*, implausible, impossible, improbable, incogitable, inconceivable, incredible, kooky, lamebrained, open to doubt, outlandish, past belief, phony, preposterous, questionable, reaching, scatterbrained*, screwy*, staggering, suspect, thick*, thin*, too much*, unconvincing, unimaginable, unsubstantial, unthinkable, weak, won't hold water, won't wash
Antonyms: believable, credible, plausible, real
Main Entry: wacky
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: acting crazy
Synonyms: absurd, balmy, crazed, crazy, daft, demented, deranged, eccentric, erratic, foolish, insane, irrational, loony*, lunatic, mad, nuts*, nutty*, odd, preposterous, screwy*, silly, unpredictable, wild, zany*, hare-brained
Antonyms: calm, collected
Main Entry: comical
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: amusing
Synonyms: Mickey Mouse, absurd, batty, camp, comic, comical, dizzy, droll, entertaining, facetious, farcical, flaky, fool, fool around, funny, goofy, humorous, ironic, jerky, jocular, joking, laughable, light, loony, ludicrous, nutty, priceless, ridiculous, risible, screwy, silly, wacky, waggish, whimsical, witty, boffo, crazy shtick, dippy, diverting, fool-headed, freaky, gelastic, goofus, gump, joshing, side-splitting
Antonyms: grave, sad, serious, solemn, tragic, unfunny
Main Entry: psycho
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: insane
Synonyms: crazed*, crazy, loony*, mad, mental, nuts*, psychopathic, psychotic, screwy*, unbalanced, certifiable*, psychoneurotic
Main Entry: confused
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: disoriented mentally
Synonyms: abashed, addled, befuddled, bewildered, dazed, discombobulated*, disconcerted, disorganized, distracted, gone*, misled, muddled, perplexed, perturbed, punch-drunk*, punchy*, puzzled, screwy*, slaphappy, spaced out*, stumped, thrown, at a loss, at sea, at sixes and sevens, baffled, come apart, flummoxed, flustered, fouled up, glassy-eyed, mixed up, nonplussed, not with it, out to lunch, shook up, shot to pieces, taken aback, thrown off balance, unglued, unscrewed, unzipped
Antonyms: clear, organized, understanding, oriented
Main Entry: crazy
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: mentally strange
Synonyms: ape, barmy, bats in the belfry, batty, berserk, bonkers*, cracked, crazed, cuckoo, daft, delirious, demented, deranged, dingy*, dippy, erratic, flaky, flipped, flipped out, freaked out, fruity, idiotic, insane, kooky, lunatic, mad, mad as a March hare*, mad as a hatter, maniacal, mental*, moonstruck, nuts, nutty, nutty as fruitcake, of unsound mind, out of one's mind, out of one's tree, out to lunch, potty, psycho, round the bend, schizo, screw loose, screwball*, screwy*, silly, touched*, unbalanced, unglued, unhinged*, unzipped, wacky
Antonyms: balanced, realistic, reasonable, responsible, sane, sensible, smart
Main Entry: crooked
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: bent, angled
Synonyms: angular, awry, bowed, circuitous, cockeyed*, crippled, curved, deformed, deviating, devious, distorted, errant, gnarled, hooked, indirect, irregular, kinky, lopsided, meandering, misshapen, oblique, rambling, roundabout, screwy*, serpentine, sinuous, slanted, snaky, spiral, topsy-turvy*, tortuous, twisted, uneven, winding, zigzag, agee, anfractuous, asymmetric, catawampus, contorted, curving, disfigured, incurving, knurly, not straight, out of shape, skewed, tilted, tortile, twisting, warped
Antonyms: straight
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