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| 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | enthusiastic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | interested, excited |
| Synonyms: | agog, animated, anxious, ardent, avid, concerned, crazy about*, devoted, eager, earnest, ebullient, exhilarated, exuberant, fanatical, fascinated, fervent, fervid, forceful, gung ho*, hearty, intent, keen, lively, nutty*, obsessed, passionate, pleased, rabid, red-hot*, rhapsodic, spirited, thrilled, unqualified, vehement, vigorous, wacky*, warm, wholehearted, willing, zealous, athirst, attracted, bugged, dying to, gaga, gone on, keyed up, tantalized, titillated |
| Antonyms: | apathetic, disinterested, doubting, indifferent, lethargic, pessimistic, unenthusiastic, weary, unexcited |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | flaky |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | eccentric |
| Synonyms: | crazy, goofy*, haywire, nutty, odd, peculiar, queer, screwy, unconventional, wacky, birdy, half-cracked |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | foolish |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | nonsensical, idiotic |
| Synonyms: | absurd, asinine, brainless, crazy, daffy*, daft, dotty*, fantastic, fatuous, feebleminded*, half-baked*, half-witted*, harebrained*, ill-advised, imprudent, incautious, indiscreet, injudicious, insane, irrational, jerky*, loony*, ludicrous, lunatic, mad, moronic, nutty*, preposterous, ridiculous, senseless, short-sighted, silly, simple, stupid, unintelligent, unreasonable, unwise, wacky*, weak, witless, zany*, cockamamy, dippy, doltish, ill-considered, imbecilic, kooky, nerdy |
| Antonyms: | careful, cautious, circumspect, prudent, sensible, serious, thoughtful, wise, unfoolish |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | harebrained |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | stupid, unthinking |
| Synonyms: | absurd, asinine, barmy, bizarre, careless, changeable, crazy, dizzy*, empty-headed*, featherbrained*, flighty, foolish, frivolous, giddy, half-baked*, heedless, inane, irresponsible, loony*, mindless, preposterous, rash, reckless, scatterbrained*, unstable, unsteady, wacky*, wild, rattlebrained |
| Antonyms: | brainy, intelligent, reasonable, sensible, smart, thoughtful |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | irrational |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | illogical, senseless |
| Synonyms: | aberrant, absurd, brainless, crazy, delirious, demented, disconnected, disjointed, distraught, fallacious, flaky*, foolish, incoherent, injudicious, insane, invalid, loony*, mad, mindless, nonsensical, nutty*, preposterous, raving, ridiculous, silly, specious, stupid, unreasonable, unsound, unstable, unthinking, unwise, wacky*, wild, wrong, cockamamie, freaky, kooky, off-the-wall, reasonless, sophistic, unreasoning |
| Antonyms: | logical, rational, reasonable, reflective, sensible, sound, stable |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | jocular/jocose/jocund |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | funny, playful |
| Synonyms: | amusing, blithe, camp, cheerful, comic, comical, crazy, daffy, droll, facetious, flaky*, frolicsome, gay, gleeful, happy, humorous, jesting, joking, jolly, jovial, joyous, laughable, lighthearted, lively, ludicrous, merry, mischievous, pleasant, roguish, sportive, teasing, wacky, waggish, whimsical, witty, jokey, joshing |
| Antonyms: | morose, serious, unfunny |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | nuts/nutty |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | mentally deranged |
| Synonyms: | absurd, batty*, bedlamite, cracked*, crazy, daffy, daft, demented, eccentric, enthusiastic, foolish, gung ho*, harebrained*, insane, irrational, keen, kooky, loony, lunatic, mad, out of one's mind, ridiculous, touched, unusual, wacky*, warm, zealous |
| Antonyms: | balanced, calm, sane, well |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | preposterous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | ridiculous, bizarre |
| Synonyms: | absurd, asinine, crazy, excessive, exorbitant, extravagant, extreme, fantastic, far-out*, foolish, harebrained*, impossible, incredible, insane, irrational, laughable, ludicrous, monstrous, nonsensical, out of the question, outrageous, senseless, shocking, silly, stupid, thick*, too much*, unbelievable, unreasonable, unthinkable, unusual, wacky*, wild, taking the cake |
| Antonyms: | reasonable, sensible |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | quirky |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | eccentric |
| Synonyms: | bizarre, far out, freakish, idiosyncratic, kinky*, odd, out of the ordinary, outre, peculiar, strange, unconventional, unorthodox, unusual, wacky*, way-out, weird, freaky, in left field, off-the-wall |
| Notes: | quirky means strikingly unconventional or given to idiosyncrasies; kinky means showing or appealing to bizarre or deviant tastes - or in small tight curls |
| Antonyms: | conventional |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | ridiculous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | stupid, funny |
| Synonyms: | absurd, antic, bizarre, comic, comical, contemptible, daffy*, droll, fantastic, farcical, foolish, goofy*, grotesque, harebrained*, hilarious, impossible, incredible, jerky*, laughable, ludicrous, nonsensical, nutty*, outrageous, preposterous, risible, sappy*, silly, slaphappy*, unbelievable, wacky*, derisory, foolheaded, gelastic |
| Antonyms: | believable, reasonable, sensible, serious |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | senseless |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | silly, meaningless |
| Synonyms: | absurd, asinine, batty, crazy, daft, double talk, fatuous, flaky, foolish, idiotic, illogical, inane, incongruous, inconsistent, insignificant, irrational, ludicrous, mad, mindless, moronic, nonsensical, nutty, pointless, purposeless, ridiculous, simple, stupid, trivial, unimportant, unintelligent, unreasonable, unsound, unwise, wacky*, doublespeak, imbecilic, purportless, unmeaning, without rhyme or reason |
| Antonyms: | feeling, intelligent, rational, reasonable, sensible, wise |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | witless |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | foolish |
| Synonyms: | absurd, asinine, brainless, crazy, daffy*, dotty*, dumb, feebleminded*, half-baked*, half-witted*, harebrained*, idiotic, ill-advised, irrational, jerky*, loony*, ludicrous, lunatic, mad, mindless, moronic, nonsensical, nutty*, ridiculous, senseless, silly, stupid, unintelligent, unwise, wacky*, zany*, birdbrained, cockamamy, doltish, kooky |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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