daffy

daffy
I
(New American Roget's College Thesaurus)
adj., informal, daft, crazy, silly. See folly, insanity.
II
(Roget's 3 Superthesaurus) a.
*nutty, crazy, foolish, silly, *loony, clownish, *goofy, daft, *nuttier than a fruitcake.
ANT.: rational, sane
III
(Roget's Thesaurus II) adjective Informal Afflicted with or exhibiting irrationality and mental unsoundness: brainsick, crazy, daft, demented, disordered, distraught, dotty, insane, lunatic, mad, maniac, maniacal, mentally ill, moonstruck, off, touched, unbalanced, unsound, wrong. Informal: bonkers, cracked, gaga, loony. Slang: bananas, batty, buggy, cuckoo, fruity, loco, nuts, nutty, screwy, wacky. Chiefly British: crackers. Law: non compos mentis. Idioms: around the bend, crazy as a loon, mad as a hatter, not all there, nutty as a fruitcake, off (or out of) one's head, off one's rocker, of unsound mind, out of one's mind, sick in the head, stark raving mad. See SANE.

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