LOONY

balmy, barmy, bats, batty, bonkers, buggy, cracked, crackers, daft, dotty, fruity, haywire, kooky, kookie, loco, loony, loopy, nuts, nutty, round the bend, around the bend, wacky, whacky

(adjective) informal or slang terms for mentally irregular; “it used to drive my husband balmy”

crazy, loony, looney, nutcase, weirdo

(noun) someone deranged and possibly dangerous

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Adjective

loony (comparative loonier, superlative looniest)

(informal, of a person) Insane.

(informal, of a thing) Very silly, absurd.

Synonyms

• See also insane

Noun

loony (plural loonies)

(informal) An insane or very foolish person.

Source: Wiktionary


Loon"y, a.

Definition: See Luny.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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Word of the Day

15 April 2025

DOOMED

(adjective) marked by or promising bad fortune; “their business venture was doomed from the start”; “an ill-fated business venture”; “an ill-starred romance”; “the unlucky prisoner was again put in irons”- W.H.Prescott


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