loony
adjective
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Synonyms & Antonyms for loony
Synonyms
absurd, asinine, balmy, brainless, bubbleheaded, cockeyed, crackpot, crazy, cuckoo, daffy, daft, dippy, dotty, fatuous, featherheaded, fool, foolish, half-baked, half-witted, harebrained, inept, insane, jerky, kooky (also kookie), lunatic, lunkheaded, mad, nonsensical, nutty, preposterous, sappy, screwball, senseless, silly, simpleminded, stupid, tomfool, unwise, wacky (also whacky), weak-minded, witless, zany
Antonyms
judicious, prudent, sagacious, sage, sane, sapient, sensible, sound, wise
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When a corporate mega-park opens nearby, D.C. and his loony crew of misfits must pull out all the stops to try and save the day. — Los Angeles Times, "Movies on TV this week Sept. 1 - 7, 2019: John Wayne in ‘The Searchers’ and more," 30 Aug. 2019 This affords the great Cate Blanchett any number of hyper-ventilating, evasion-centric loony scenes, but also leaves the heart of the matter 'til the very end. — Todd Mccarthy, The Hollywood Reporter, "'Where'd You Go, Bernadette': Film Review," 15 Aug. 2019 The saga of the loony mallard is something of a bright spot for this year’s loon families. — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, "Empty Nester Loons Adopt a Mallard Chick in Northern Wisconsin," 27 July 2019 Surgeons were pillars of society, herbalists the loony fringe. — The Economist, "The business of the body," 11 July 2019 Most of them seem to feel a calm fascination with natural disasters, like a woman who gets astonishingly drunk during a hurricane and imagines that men from her past visit her in increasingly loony scenarios verging on magical realism. — Erin Berger, Outside Online, "Lauren Groff's 'Florida' Dives into the Swamp," 21 June 2018 As with Ocean’s Eleven’s motley crew of con artists, these characters aren’t developed much beyond their elite competency; with the exception of Bonham Carter’s loony Rose and Awkwafina’s gruff Constance, their skills are their personalities. — Alex Abad-santos, Vox, "Ocean’s 8 isn’t a great movie, but it’s a perfect summer movie.," 6 June 2018 Roles for the young thespians were wild tour guides, frantic Hollywood studio personnel and agents, loony lawyers, little monsters, wanna-be-actors and gossip columnists. — Chris Folks, Laurel Leader, "Drama club learns that the show must go ojn [West Laurel]," 5 Apr. 2018 No one could miss the show's cast of gameful loony birds presumably motivated by the same sort of curiosity that moves people to high school reunions and gambling tables. — Scott Harrison, latimes.com, "From the Archives: At the doorstep of 'Let's Make a Deal'," 14 Mar. 2018These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'loony.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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loony
adjective
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