Loony

5 definitions found

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

  loony \loon"y\ (l[=oo]n"[y^]), a. [Shortened fr. lunatic.]
     1. Crazy; insane; lunatic; mentally unsound. [Low, U.S.]
        [Written also {loony}, {luny} and {looney}.] See {Luny}.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     2. Very foolish; very impractical; as, loony ideas.


        [PJC]

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

  loony \loony\ (l[=oo]n"[y^]) n.
     someone mentally deranged and possibly dangerous.
  
     Syn: crazy, looney, weirdo, psycho.
          [WordNet 1.5]

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

  Luny \Lu"ny\, a. [Shortened fr. lunatic.]
     Crazy; insane; mentally unsound. [Written also {loony} and
     {looney}.] [Low, U.S.]
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  loony
       adj : 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},
              {loopy}, {nuts}, {nutty}, {round the bend}, {around
             the bend}, {wacky}, {whacky}]
       n : someone deranged and possibly dangerous [syn: {crazy}, {looney},
            {weirdo}]
       [also: {looniest}, {loonier}]

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

  89 Moby Thesaurus words for "loony":
     absurd, apish, asinine, balmy, bananas, barmy, bats, batty, beany,
     bedlamite, befooled, beguiled, besotted, bonkers, brainless,
     buffoonish, buggy, bughouse, bugs, cockeyed, crackers, crazy,
     credulous, cuckoo, daffy, daft, dazed, dement, dippy, dizzy,
     doting, dotty, dumb, fatuitous, fatuous, flaky, flipped, fond,
     fool, foolheaded, foolish, freaked-out, fruitcakey, fruity,
     fuddled, futile, gaga, goofy, gulled, harebrained, haywire,
     idiotic, imbecile, inane, inept, infatuated, insane,
     just plain nuts, kooky, loon, loopy, mad, madman, maniac, maudlin,
     moronic, non compos, nut, nuts, nutty, off the hinges,
     off the track, off the wall, potty, preposterous, round the bend,
     sappy, screwball, screwballs, screwy, senseless, sentimental,
     silly, slaphappy, stupid, thoughtless, wacky, wet, witless