kooky

adjective

ˈkü-kē 

variants or less commonly kookie

kookier; kookiest

: having the characteristics of a kook : offbeat, eccentric

kookiness noun

Synonyms

• bizarre
• bizarro
• cranky
• crazy
• curious
• eccentric
• erratic
• far-out
• funky
• funny
• kinky
• odd
• off-kilter
• off-the-wall
• offbeat
• out-of-the-way
• outlandish
• outré
• peculiar
• quaint
• queer
• queerish
• quirky
• remarkable
• rum [chiefly British]
• screwy
• spaced-out
• strange
• wacky
• whacky
• way-out
• weird
• weirdo
• wild

Examples of kooky in a Sentence

I'm not sure that someone with such kooky ideas on biology should be teaching the subject to high schoolers.

if you think that drugs aren't bad for you, you haven't met that guy's kooky friends

Recent Examples on the Web

But there has to be a better way to do this and part of that is reforming New York City’s very kooky property tax structure, where Con Ed pays more to City Hall than anyone else and then has to charge higher fees to customers. —New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 15 Feb. 2025

Fast-food chains around the country are soon featuring spooky – or altogether kooky – additions to their menus to celebrate Halloween. —Christine Rousselle, Fox News, 4 Oct. 2024

But, at least the comedy in this spinoff, which has the black-and-white foursome on a mission to stop an evil octopus supervillain in a kooky James Bond pastiche, works. —James Grebey, Vulture, 31 Jan. 2025

The company is betting that chocolate, peanut butter and a group of kooky characters will be enough to carry the day. —Brian Steinberg, Variety, 31 Jan. 2025

Word History

First Known Use

1957, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for kooky

• spooky