Daft

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Daft \Daft\ (d[.a]ft), a. [OE. daft, deft, deft, stupid; prob.
     the same word as E. deft. See {Deft}.]
     1. Stupid; foolish; idiotic; also, delirious; insane; as, he
        has gone daft.
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              Let us think no more of this daft business --Sir W.
                                                    Scott.
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     2. Gay; playful; frolicsome. [Scot.] --Jamieson.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  daft
       adj : informal or slang terms for mentally irregular; "it used to
             drive my husband balmy" [syn: {balmy}, {barmy}, {bats},
              {batty}, {bonkers}, {buggy}, {cracked}, {crackers}, {dotty},
              {fruity}, {haywire}, {kooky}, {kookie}, {loco}, {loony},
              {loopy}, {nuts}, {nutty}, {round the bend}, {around
             the bend}, {wacky}, {whacky}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  116 Moby Thesaurus words for "daft":
     abnormal, absurd, apish, asinine, batty, bedlamite, befooled,
     beguiled, bereft of reason, besotted, boneheaded, brainless,
     brainsick, buffoonish, cockamamie, cockeyed, crackbrained, cracked,
     crazed, crazy, crazy about, credulous, cretinous, daffy, dazed,
     deluded, demented, deprived of reason, deranged, dim-witted,
     disoriented, distraught, dizzy, dopey, doting, dumb, fat-witted,
     fatuitous, fatuous, flaky, flighty, fond, fool, foolheaded,
     foolish, fuddled, futile, gaga, giddy, goofy, gulled, hallucinated,
     idiotic, imbecile, imbecilic, inane, inept, infatuated,
     infatuated with, insane, irrational, kooky, loco, loony, lunatic,
     mad, mad about, maddened, manic, maudlin, mazed, mental,
     mentally deficient, meshuggah, moon-struck, moronic, non compos,
     non compos mentis, nonsensical, not all there, not right,
     nuts about, nutty, obtuse, odd, of unsound mind, off, psycho,
     queer, reasonless, ridiculous, sappy, screwy, senseless,
     sentimental, sick, silly, slow-witted, stark-mad,
     stark-staring mad, strange, stupid, sweet on, tetched, thoughtless,
     touched, unbalanced, unhinged, unsane, unsettled, unsound, wacky,
     wandering, weak-minded, wet, witless