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Definition of daft in English: daftadjective dɑːftdæft British informal 1Silly; foolish. don't ask such daft questions Example sentencesExamples - He had written that he was struggling to deal with his feelings and felt daft even expressing them.
- They were patient and polite, but they obviously wondered why I was asking such a daft question.
- I could spend hours just staring into the mirror, pulling daft faces.
- Forgive me if I sound daft, but I can't see a link between the two subjects.
- I ask her if she smokes, a daft question given that this is a tobacconist, but you have to start somewhere.
- Even the most supposedly stylish people looked pretty daft 20 years ago.
- This reduces the arguments to the silly opinions of a couple of daft people with money.
- I felt an urge in recent weeks to e-mail the journalist and tell him what a good job he was doing, but felt a bit daft e-mailing a total stranger.
- Very little in business is easy, and anyone looking for an easy option would be daft to make exporting their first choice.
- Who thought it was a good idea to ask such a daft question in the first place?
- A stream of people I half-knew kept coming up to tell me how daft I looked.
- My dear old mother went as daft as a brush in her final years.
- How could such a clever man be so daft that he did not anticipate the most obvious questions?
- The story is totally daft and has plot holes you can drive a bus through.
- The bed is edged with a lavender hedge on two sides, which I like, but I planted a yellow rose in the bed and it was miles too tall and looked daft.
- Gangsta culture may look glamorous to some but transport it to the Midlands and it looks daft.
- As scatty or daft as I may come across here at times, work is hugely important to me.
- There's no way of supping a full latte without getting a foamy moustache on your upper lip and it looks as daft on a power person as it does on an old grey man.
- This latest daft row is yet another example of the slimy politics which disfigure racing, and there's a lot worse to come.
- The conversation deteriorated until we were calling each other daft names and I moved to storm out of his office with one final remark.
Synonyms absurd, preposterous, ridiculous, ludicrous, farcical, laughable, risible idiotic, stupid, foolish, foolhardy, unwise, imprudent, ill-conceived, silly, inane, puerile, infantile, fatuous, imbecilic, hare-brained, half-baked unreasonable, irrational, illogical, nonsensical, pointless, senseless, impracticable, unworkable, unrealistic peculiar, odd, strange, queer, weird, eccentric, bizarre, fantastic, incongruous, grotesque informal crazy, barmy, potty, cock-eyed simple-minded, simple, stupid, idiotic, moronic, imbecilic, dull-witted, dull, dim-witted, slow-witted, slow, witless, half-witted, feeble-minded, dunce-like, cretinous, empty-headed, vacuous, vapid deranged, unhinged, insane, mad informal touched, thick, thick as two short planks, dim, dopey, dumb, dozy, birdbrained, pea-brained, pig-ignorant, bovine, slow on the uptake, soft in the head, brain-dead, boneheaded, lamebrained, chuckleheaded, dunderheaded, wooden-headed, fat-headed, muttonheaded, not all there, not quite right, crazy, mental, nuts, nutty, crackers, cracked, potty, barmy, batty, cuckoo, bonkers, dotty, dippy British informal not the full shilling North American informal dumb-ass - 1.1daft about Infatuated with.
Example sentencesExamples - Of course they are just daft about their rugby round here.
- I've been daft about cricket since I was young, and I was part of a successful squad until I was forced to pack it in at 26 when I tore my cartilage and ruptured my knee ligaments.
- Much of the population is daft about dogs and there are not many whippets here so people stop us in the street to look at them.
- It's time to stop being daft about Christmas.
- His mother Karen said that she and her husband, Kevin, who are both doctors, were both daft about puzzles and had encouraged Jack and younger sister Mia in their hobby.
Synonyms infatuated with, enamoured of, obsessed by, smitten with, besotted by, doting on, very fond of informal crazy, wild, mad, nutty, nuts, potty, gone on informal, dated sweet on
Derivatives noun British informal And delirious daftness without rhyme or reason is just plain boring and at the core of this film. Example sentencesExamples - In more recent years, Sarti's has become an excellent location for late-night daftness over a couple of bottles of Barolo.
- The daftness here can get a bit much; so can all the label-dropping and all-round atmosphere of A-list privilege.
- Yet for all the daftness, such as Phoebus's pronounced lisp and a rubber chicken fight, there is a serious core to the drama.
- Dark, menacing and overblown to the point of daftness, it's just like the real Wuthering Heights.
Origin Old English gedæfte 'mild, meek', of Germanic origin; related to Gothic gabadan 'become or be fitting'. In Old English a daft person was mild and gentle, qualities which tougher folk have often interpreted as signs of foolishness or mental incapacity. Deft (Middle English) was a related word, which first meant ‘mild, meek’ as well as ‘skilful’. Daft came to refer to lack of intelligence during the Middle Ages, and from the 16th century it could also imply madness. It could also mean playfulness—the festivities of Christmas used to be referred to as the daft days. See also crazy, silly
Rhymes abaft, aft, craft, draft, draught, engraft, graft, haft, kraft, raft, understaffed, unstaffed, waft Definition of daft in US English: daftadjectivedæftdaft British informal 1Silly; foolish. don't ask such daft questions Example sentencesExamples - Even the most supposedly stylish people looked pretty daft 20 years ago.
- The story is totally daft and has plot holes you can drive a bus through.
- I ask her if she smokes, a daft question given that this is a tobacconist, but you have to start somewhere.
- The bed is edged with a lavender hedge on two sides, which I like, but I planted a yellow rose in the bed and it was miles too tall and looked daft.
- Who thought it was a good idea to ask such a daft question in the first place?
- I could spend hours just staring into the mirror, pulling daft faces.
- How could such a clever man be so daft that he did not anticipate the most obvious questions?
- As scatty or daft as I may come across here at times, work is hugely important to me.
- The conversation deteriorated until we were calling each other daft names and I moved to storm out of his office with one final remark.
- Very little in business is easy, and anyone looking for an easy option would be daft to make exporting their first choice.
- This reduces the arguments to the silly opinions of a couple of daft people with money.
- He had written that he was struggling to deal with his feelings and felt daft even expressing them.
- A stream of people I half-knew kept coming up to tell me how daft I looked.
- This latest daft row is yet another example of the slimy politics which disfigure racing, and there's a lot worse to come.
- There's no way of supping a full latte without getting a foamy moustache on your upper lip and it looks as daft on a power person as it does on an old grey man.
- They were patient and polite, but they obviously wondered why I was asking such a daft question.
- I felt an urge in recent weeks to e-mail the journalist and tell him what a good job he was doing, but felt a bit daft e-mailing a total stranger.
- My dear old mother went as daft as a brush in her final years.
- Forgive me if I sound daft, but I can't see a link between the two subjects.
- Gangsta culture may look glamorous to some but transport it to the Midlands and it looks daft.
Synonyms absurd, preposterous, ridiculous, ludicrous, farcical, laughable, risible simple-minded, simple, stupid, idiotic, moronic, imbecilic, dull-witted, dull, dim-witted, slow-witted, slow, witless, half-witted, feeble-minded, dunce-like, cretinous, empty-headed, vacuous, vapid - 1.1daft about Infatuated with.
we were all daft about him Example sentencesExamples - It's time to stop being daft about Christmas.
- His mother Karen said that she and her husband, Kevin, who are both doctors, were both daft about puzzles and had encouraged Jack and younger sister Mia in their hobby.
- Of course they are just daft about their rugby round here.
- Much of the population is daft about dogs and there are not many whippets here so people stop us in the street to look at them.
- I've been daft about cricket since I was young, and I was part of a successful squad until I was forced to pack it in at 26 when I tore my cartilage and ruptured my knee ligaments.
Synonyms infatuated with, enamoured of, obsessed by, smitten with, besotted by, doting on, very fond of
Origin Old English gedæfte ‘mild, meek’, of Germanic origin; related to Gothic gabadan ‘become or be fitting’. |