Wacky

3 definitions found

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

  Wacke \Wack"e\, Wacky \Wack"y\, n. [G. wacke, MHG. wacke a large
     stone, OHG. waggo a pebble.] (Geol.)
     A soft, earthy, dark-colored rock or clay derived from the
     alteration of basalt.
     [1913 Webster]



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  wacky
       adj 1: pungent adjectives of disesteem; "gave me a cockamamie
              reason for not going"; "wore a goofy hat"; "a silly
              idea"; "some wacky plan for selling more books" [syn:
              {cockamamie}, {cockamamy}, {goofy}, {sappy}, {silly},
              {whacky}, {zany}, {unreasonable}]
       2: informal or slang terms for mentally irregular; "it used to
          drive my husband balmy" [syn: {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}, {whacky}]
       [also: {wackiest}, {wackier}]

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

  119 Moby Thesaurus words for "wacky":
     abnormal, absurd, anomalous, apish, asinine, balmy, bananas, barmy,
     bats, batty, beany, befooled, beguiled, besotted, bonkers,
     brainless, buffoonish, buggy, bughouse, bugs, cockeyed, cracked,
     crackers, crank, crankish, cranky, crazed, crazy, credulous,
     crotchety, cuckoo, daffy, daft, dazed, demented, deranged, deviant,
     deviative, different, dippy, divergent, dizzy, doting, dotty, dumb,
     eccentric, erratic, exceptional, fatuitous, fatuous, fey, flaky,
     flipped, fond, fool, foolheaded, foolish, freaked-out, freakish,
     fruitcakey, fruity, fuddled, funny, futile, gaga, goofy, gulled,
     harebrained, haywire, idiocratic, idiosyncratic, idiotic, imbecile,
     inane, inept, infatuated, insane, irregular, just plain nuts,
     kinky, kooky, loony, loopy, lunatic, mad, maggoty, maudlin,
     moronic, nuts, nutty, odd, oddball, off the hinges, off the track,
     off the wall, peculiar, potty, preposterous, queer, quirky,
     round the bend, sappy, screwball, screwballs, screwy, senseless,
     sentimental, silly, singular, slaphappy, strange, stupid,
     thoughtless, twisted, unconventional, unnatural, wet, whimsical,
     witless