Cockeyed

2 definitions found

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  cockeyed
       adj 1: turned or twisted toward one side; "a...youth with a
              gorgeous red necktie all awry"- G.K.Chesterton; "his
              wig was, as the British say, skew-whiff" [syn: {askew},
               {awry(p)}, {lopsided}, {wonky}, {skew-whiff}]
       2: completely devoid of wisdom or good sense; "the absurd


          excuse that the dog ate his homework"; "that's a cockeyed
          idea"; "ask a nonsensical question and get a nonsensical
          answer"; "a contribution so small as to be laughable"; "it
          is ludicrous to call a cottage a mansion"; "a preposterous
          attempt to turn back the pages of history"; "her conceited
          assumption of universal interest in her rather dull
          children was ridiculous" [syn: {absurd}, {derisory}, {idiotic},
           {laughable}, {ludicrous}, {nonsensical}, {preposterous},
          {ridiculous}]
       3: very drunk [syn: {besotted}, {blind drunk}, {blotto}, {crocked},
           {fuddled}, {loaded}, {pie-eyed}, {pissed}, {pixilated}, {plastered},
           {potty}, {slopped}, {sloshed}, {smashed}, {soaked}, {soused},
           {sozzled}, {squiffy}, {stiff}, {tiddly}, {tiddley}, {tight},
           {tipsy}, {wet}]

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

  177 Moby Thesaurus words for "cockeyed":
     afflicted, agee, agee-jawed, amiss, anamorphous, apish, asinine,
     askance, askant, askew, askewgee, asquint, asymmetric, awry, batty,
     befooled, beguiled, bent, besotted, boiled, bombed, boozy, bowed,
     brainless, buffoonish, bug-eyed, cam, canned, catawampous,
     catawamptious, cock-a-hoop, cockeyed drunk, contorted, convulsed,
     crazy, credulous, crocked, crocko, crooked, crookedly, cross-eyed,
     crumpled, crunched, daffy, daft, dazed, deranged, deviative,
     disarranged, discomfited, discomposed, disconcerted, disguised,
     dislocated, disordered, disorderly, disorganized, distorted,
     disturbed, dizzy, doting, drunk, dumb, elevated, fatuitous,
     fatuous, flaky, fond, fool, foolheaded, foolish, fried, fuddled,
     futile, gaga, glare-eyed, goofy, gulled, half-seas over, haywire,
     high, idiotic, illuminated, imbecile, in disorder, inane,
     inebriated, inept, infatuated, insane, irregular, kooky,
     labyrinthine, lit, lit up, loaded, loony, lopsided, lubricated,
     lushy, mad, maudlin, misplaced, monocular, moon-eyed, moronic,
     muddled, muzzy, nonsymmetric, nutty, oiled, on the fritz, one-eyed,
     one-sided, organized, out of gear, out of joint, out of kelter,
     out of kilter, out of order, out of place, out of tune,
     out of whack, perturbed, pickled, pie-eyed, pissed, pissy-eyed,
     pixilated, plastered, polluted, popeyed, potted, raddled, roily,
     sappy, saucer-eyed, screwy, senseless, sentimental, shellacked,
     shuffled, silly, skew, skew-jawed, skewed, skunk-drunk,
     slaunchways, smashed, soaked, soused, sprung, squiffy, squinting,
     stewed, stinko, stupid, swacked, swivel-eyed, tanked, thoughtless,
     tight, tortuous, turbid, turbulent, twisted, unsettled,
     unsymmetric, upset, wacky, walleyed, wamper-jawed, warped, wet,
     witless, wry, yaw-ways