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单词 loony
释义

loony

adjective

loo·​ny ˈlü-nē How to pronounce loony (audio)
variants or less commonly looney
loonier; looniest
: crazy, foolish
looniness noun
loony noun
plural loonies

Synonyms

  • absurd
  • asinine
  • balmy
  • brainless
  • bubbleheaded
  • cockeyed
  • crackpot
  • crazy
  • cuckoo
  • daffy
  • daft
  • dippy
  • dotty
  • fatuous
  • featherheaded
  • fool
  • foolish
  • half-baked
  • half-witted
  • harebrained
  • inept
  • insane
  • jerky
  • kooky
  • kookie
  • lunatic
  • lunkheaded
  • mad
  • nonsensical
  • nutty
  • preposterous
  • sappy
  • screwball
  • senseless
  • silly
  • simpleminded
  • stupid
  • tomfool
  • unwise
  • wacky
  • whacky
  • weak-minded
  • witless
  • zany
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Example Sentences

Every family includes someone who's a little loony. that's got to be the looniest idea I've ever heard
Recent Examples on the Web And who will vote based on other loony conspiracy theories pushed by QAnon and other fringe groups? Se Cupp, CNN, 25 Aug. 2022 Still, their portrayals were threaded with loony humor and irony. New York Times, 20 July 2022 And then there’s the lovely, loony sight of Russell Crowe, gamely chasséing in a golden breastplate and white tutu as the Greek god Zeus. Justin Changfilm Critic, Los Angeles Times, 5 July 2022 On Monday, during the team’s victory parade down Market Street, Klay added to his loony legacy. Matthias Gafni, San Francisco Chronicle, 20 June 2022 That was them — and one farting-corpse feature film later, Daniels have made a name for themselves as go-to absurdists with a love of loony FX, dark comedy and some odd, left-turn swerves into pathos. David Fear, Rolling Stone, 23 Mar. 2022 Are White, a film that abounds in lovely oddities and gently loony surprises. Sheri Linden, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 Mar. 2022 At 51, Hartig is more the fun, loony uncle than the mischievous scalawag—a somewhat shy eccentric with angst disguised as devil-may-care. Christina Binkley, Town & Country, 24 Feb. 2022 Ragtime goes wrong from the opening credits when Forman skips Scott Joplin syncopation for a loony Twyla Tharp waltz. Armond White, National Review, 12 Nov. 2021 See More

Word History

Etymology

by shortening & alteration from lunatic

First Known Use

1872, in the meaning defined above

loony 1 of 2

noun

as in lunatic
one having or showing a severely disordered or abnormal state of mind his insistence that aliens were monitoring his thoughts forced us to conclude that he was in fact a loony

Synonyms & Similar Words

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  • lunatic
  • psychopath
  • fool
  • maniac
  • psycho
  • wacko
  • crazy
  • loon
  • schizo
  • nutcase
  • nutter
  • whacko
  • sicko
  • bug
  • psychotic
  • fruitcake
  • nut
  • madman
  • paranoid
  • sickie
  • abnormal
  • head case
  • crackbrain
  • madwoman
  • neurotic
  • obsessive
  • schizophrenic
  • deviant
  • eccentric
  • schizoid
  • kook
  • crackpot
  • monomaniac
  • weirdo
  • character
  • zany
  • crack
  • oddball
  • patient
  • screwball
  • psychoneurotic
  • sociopath
  • fantastic
  • original
  • codger
  • manic-depressive
  • mythomaniac
  • obsessive-compulsive
  • flake
  • case
  • crank
  • schizophrene
  • oddity
  • tyke
  • tike
  • quiz

loony

2 of 2

adjective

variants also looney
1
as in stupid
showing or marked by a lack of good sense or judgment that's got to be the looniest idea I've ever heard

Synonyms & Similar Words

  • stupid
  • crazy
  • lunatic
  • silly
  • zany
  • nutty
  • kooky
  • crackpot
  • wacky
  • daft
  • insane
  • mad
  • absurd
  • daffy
  • screwball
  • dippy
  • nonsensical
  • fool
  • dotty
  • cuckoo
  • fatuous
  • foolish
  • whacky
  • preposterous
  • witless
  • asinine
  • harebrained
  • tomfool
  • simpleminded
  • kookie
  • simple
  • brainless
  • unwise
  • inept
  • senseless
  • sappy
  • cockeyed
  • jerky
  • idiotic
  • bubbleheaded
  • lunkheaded
  • half-baked
  • half-witted
  • imbecile
  • moronic
  • irrational
  • dumb
  • balmy
  • dopey
  • weak-minded
  • ridiculous
  • doltish
  • lamebrain
  • illogical
  • clueless
  • thoughtless
  • ludicrous
  • vacuous
  • feebleminded
  • obtuse
  • dunderheaded
  • thickheaded
  • unintelligent
  • unreasonable
  • featherheaded
  • gormless
  • dorky
  • out to lunch
  • oafish
  • mindless
  • farcical
  • pinheaded
  • imbecilic
  • softheaded
  • laughable
  • fallacious
  • dense
  • clownish
  • weak
  • knuckleheaded
  • airheaded
  • unreasoning
  • chuckleheaded
  • dim-witted
  • nonrational
  • surd
  • slow
  • unsound
  • opaque
  • empty-headed
  • thick
  • dim
  • invalid
  • lamebrained
  • buffoonish
  • brain-dead
  • dull
  • idiotical
  • notional
  • birdbrained
  • dopy
  • soft
  • slow-witted
  • unreasoned
  • boobish
  • chowderheaded
  • unconsidered
  • ill-advised

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

  • sane
  • sensible
  • wise
  • sound
  • prudent
  • clever
  • sagacious
  • intelligent
  • sage
  • judicious
  • reasonable
  • rational
  • smart
  • bright
  • logical
  • valid
  • brainy
  • sapient
  • well-advised
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2
as in psychotic
having or showing a severely disordered or abnormal state of mind I probably sound like a loony talking to myself like I do

Synonyms & Similar Words

  • lunatic
  • psychotic
  • maniac
  • maniacal
  • wacko
  • psycho
  • deranged
  • crazed
  • demented
  • unhinged
  • bonkers
  • nutty
  • mad
  • crackpot
  • nuts
  • daft
  • kooky
  • whacko
  • wacky
  • batty
  • daffy
  • cuckoo
  • insane
  • whacky
  • barmy
  • crazy
  • mental
  • certifiable
  • bedlam
  • screwy
  • unbalanced
  • moonstruck
  • haywire
  • kookie
  • around the bend
  • scatty
  • crackers
  • gaga
  • bughouse
  • loco
  • cracked
  • meshuga
  • brainsick
  • paranoid
  • bats
  • unsound
  • loony tunes
  • fruity
  • loopy
  • meshuggah
  • cranky
  • strange
  • crackbrained
  • meshugah
  • out to lunch
  • looney tunes
  • eccentric
  • delusional
  • neurotic
  • meshugge
  • paranoiac
  • schizophrenic
  • dotty
  • balmy
  • wud
  • oddball
  • schizoid
  • sociopathic
  • delirious
  • out of one's mind
  • irrational
  • fey
  • off one's rocker
  • delusionary
  • non compos mentis
  • off one's gourd
  • disturbed
  • out of one's head
  • off one's head
  • aberrant
  • disordered
  • foolish
  • paranoic
  • witless
  • tetched
  • bananas
  • unreasonable
  • raving
  • berserk
  • hysterical
  • paranoidal
  • off
  • touched
  • ape
  • odd
  • nuclear
  • ballistic
  • pixilated
  • obsessive-compulsive
  • potty
  • frantic
  • obsessed
  • monomaniac
  • monomaniacal
  • hysteric
  • amok
  • distraught
  • senseless
  • depressed
  • teched
  • pixillated
  • queer
  • frenzied
  • fixated
  • wigged-out
  • amuck
  • distracted

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

  • sane
  • sound
  • rational
  • reasonable
  • balanced
  • sensible
  • clear
  • compos mentis
  • wise
  • normal
  • lucid
  • uncrazy
  • judicious
  • healthy
  • well-adjusted
  • unneurotic
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