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loony tunes

adjective
variants: or looney tunes

Definition of loony tunes

: loony

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Synonyms & Antonyms for loony tunes

Synonyms

balmy, barmy [chiefly British], bats, batty, bedlam, bonkers, brainsick, bughouse [slang], certifiable, crackbrained, cracked, crackers, crackpot, cranky [dialect], crazed, crazy, cuckoo, daffy, daft, demented, deranged, fruity [slang], gaga, haywire, insane, kooky (also kookie), loco [slang], loony (also looney), lunatic, mad, maniacal (also maniac), mental, meshuga (or meshugge), moonstruck, non compos mentis, nuts, nutty, psycho, psychotic, scatty [chiefly British], screwy, unbalanced, unhinged, unsound, wacko (also whacko), wacky (also whacky), wud [chiefly Scottish]

Antonyms

balanced, compos mentis, sane, sound, uncrazy

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Examples of loony tunes in a Sentence

anyone living alone in that remote cabin would be sure to go loony tunes

Recent Examples on the Web

Some of the Eckhardt's best moments, the ones that made his loony tunes character relatable, were Hauser ad libs. — Dante A. Ciampaglia, Newsweek, "Who Is Shawn Eckardt? Paul Walter Hauser Steals Every Scene as Harding’s Bodyguard in ‘I, Tonya’," 17 Jan. 2018

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First Known Use of loony tunes

1971, in the meaning defined above

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