loopy
/ˈluːpi
/adjective (loopier, loopiest)
1 informal Mad or silly: a loopy grin...
- Seize the day, seize your life - and good luck to Adrian - his loopy grin at the end of the programme said it all.
- He looked up at his parents and gave them a loopy grin from the pure oxygen he had been breathing while being prepped for the surgery.
- The football TV programme had this loopy, crazy tune they used in the stylized highlights.
2Having many loops: a big, loopy signature...
- The morning breeze builds a rollercoast of wind currents and I see a happy bird sailing in loopy loops against these somber hulking offices.
- A gold crest graced the bottom, as did Mr. Coates' loopy, recognizable signature.
- She coolly signed her loopy signature at the bottom.
Derivatives
loopily
- We all kept bumping our heads on the loopily low ceiling.
- The contents are similarly sweet, gloriously adventuresome pop crafted with astonishing ambition and proficiency, even while being loopily sloppy and self-referential.
- She was chatty and engaged, loopily talking to the audience and occasionally to her toddler goddaughter who was in the front row.
loopiness
- The more I think about this, and as I write it, it rather does seem less a quirky singularity, and more of an onrushing descent into a foggy loopiness.
- The book is divided into sections, with ‘every record, statistic and feat of human endeavour and natural wonder’ some of which are definitely of interest, whilst others are merely public loopiness.
- The Hollywood-friendly plotline is stranded - by design, apparently - between loopiness and inspiration.