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The synonyms of “Daft” are: balmy, barmy, bats, batty, bonkers, buggy, cracked, crackers, dotty, fruity, haywire, kookie, kooky, loco, loony, loopy, nuts, nutty, round the bend, wacky, whacky, absurd, preposterous, ridiculous, ludicrous, farcical, laughable, risible, simple-minded, simple, stupid, idiotic, moronic, imbecilic, dull, dim-witted, slow-witted, slow, witless, half-witted, cretinous, empty-headed, vacuous, vapid, infatuated with, smitten with, doting on, very fond of
According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “daft” as an adjective can have the following definitions:
| absurd | Inconsistent with reason or logic or common sense- Walter Lippman. The absurd predicament of seeming to argue that virtue is highly desirable but intensely unpleasant. |
| balmy | Informal or slang terms for mentally irregular. Balmy days and nights. |
| barmy | Marked by spirited enjoyment. I thought I was going barmy at first. |
| bats | Informal or slang terms for mentally irregular. |
| batty | Informal or slang terms for mentally irregular. You ll drive me batty. |
| bonkers | Informal or slang terms for mentally irregular. You re stark raving bonkers. |
| buggy | Informal or slang terms for mentally irregular. |
| cracked | (of a person’s voice) having an unusual harshness or pitch, especially through strain. Her voice emerged cracked from a throat tight with dread. |
| crackers | Extremely angry. If Luke wasn t here I d go crackers. |
| cretinous | Foolish or stupid. |
| dim-witted | Lacking mental capacity and subtlety. |
| doting on | Extravagantly or foolishly loving and indulgent. |
| dotty | Infatuated with. A dotty old lady. |
| dull | (of an edge or blade) blunt. So exhausted she was dull to what went on about her. |
| empty-headed | Lacking seriousness; given to frivolity. |
| farcical | Relating to or resembling farce, especially because of absurd or ridiculous aspects. He considered the whole idea farcical. |
| fruity | Sexually suggestive in content or style. He disparages as fruity a marble fountain of a nymph. |
| half-witted | Retarded in intellectual development. |
| haywire | Erratic; out of control. Her imagination had gone haywire. |
| idiotic | So unreasonable as to invite derision. An idiotic idea. |
| imbecilic | Having a mental age of three to seven years. |
| infatuated with | Marked by foolish or unreasoning fondness. |
| kookie | Informal or slang terms for mentally irregular. |
| kooky | Informal or slang terms for mentally irregular. I like kooky foreign films. |
| laughable | Arousing or provoking laughter. A contribution so small as to be laughable. |
| loco | Informal or slang terms for mentally irregular. |
| loony | Mad or silly. Loony drivers. |
| loopy | Having many loops. A big loopy signature. |
| ludicrous | So unreasonable as to invite derision. Ludicrous green hair. |
| moronic | Having a mental age of between eight and twelve years. Television s latest moronic soap opera. |
| nuts | Informal or slang terms for mentally irregular. The way he turns on the television as soon as he walks in drives me nuts. |
| nutty | Tasting like nuts. He came up with a few nutty proposals. |
| preposterous | Contrary to reason or common sense; utterly absurd or ridiculous. A preposterous suggestion. |
| ridiculous | Deserving or inviting derision or mockery; absurd. It seems absolutely ridiculous that anyone would try to pull a stunt like this. |
| risible | Arousing or provoking laughter. Risible courtroom antics. |
| round the bend | Having a circular shape. |
| simple | Humble and unpretentious. The simple truth. |
| simple-minded | Lacking subtlety and insight. |
| slow | At a slow tempo. Bake the dish in a preheated slow oven. |
| slow-witted | Retarded in intellectual development. |
| smitten with | Affected by something overwhelming. |
| vacuous | Devoid of intelligence. A vacuous mind. |
| vapid | Lacking significance or liveliness or spirit or zest. A vapid smile. |
| very fond of | Being the exact same one; not any other. |
| wacky | Funny or amusing in a slightly odd or peculiar way. Some wacky plan for selling more books. |
| whacky | Ludicrous, foolish. |
| witless | (of especially persons) lacking sense or understanding or judgment. I was scared witless. |
| absurdity | A message whose content is at variance with reason. The crowd laughed at the absurdity of the clown s behavior. |
| certifiable | Able or needing to be officially recorded. Encephalitis was a certifiable condition. |
| crazy | Extremely angry. Crazy about cars and racing. |
| dumb | Make dumb or unheard silence. They stared in dumb amazement. |
| fatuity | A ludicrous folly. |
| fatuous | Silly and pointless. A fatuous comment. |
| folly | A stupid mistake. Trying to drive through a blizzard is the height of folly. |
| fool | Fool or hoax. I felt a bit of a fool. |
| foolery | Silly or foolish behaviour. We endured his foolery all afternoon. |
| freak | A person or animal that is markedly unusual or deformed. A bodybuilding freak. |
| goofy | Foolish or harmlessly eccentric. A goofy grin. |
| imbecility | A stupid mistake. |
| inadvisable | Not advisable. Running on the ice is inadvisable. |
| inane | Devoid of intelligence. Don t badger people with inane questions. |
| insane | In a state of mind which prevents normal perception, behaviour, or social interaction; seriously mentally ill. Was declared insane. |
| insanity | The state of being seriously mentally ill; madness. It might be pure insanity to take this loan. |
| lunacy | The state of being a lunatic; insanity (not in technical use. It has been suggested that originality demands a degree of lunacy. |
| mad | Make someone mad. A man who had gone mad. |
| mentally | In your mind. Soldiers become physically and mentally exhausted. |
| nuts | Mad. The way he turns on the television as soon as he walks in drives me nuts. |
| ridiculous | Inspiring scornful pity- Dashiell Hammett. That ridiculous tartan cap. |
| ridiculously | So as to cause surprise or disbelief. Ridiculously I felt like crying. |
| silly | Ridiculously trivial or frivolous. Don t be silly she said. |
| simpleton | A person lacking intelligence or common sense. Stop grinning at me like a simpleton. |
| stupidity | Behaviour that shows a lack of good sense or judgement. A comedy of infantile stupidity. |
| twit | Aggravation by deriding or mocking or criticizing. |
| uneducated | Not having a good education. Women from uneducated backgrounds. |
| vacuous | Devoid of significance or force. A vacuous space. |
| zany | A zany person. A zany sense of humor. |
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