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

Hardly undone by all that, the plucky Texas teen enlists the otherworldly assist of her mystical, kooky and somewhat sage aunt Gugu (Lori Tan Chinn) and a sidekick, the vampire spirit Ed (Bowen Yang), who warned her about the demon Kit (Woosung Kim). —Randy Myers, The Mercury News, 17 Jan. 2025

In a decade of TV witches; an alluring genie; a mother who communicates through a car radio; a flying nun; and creepy and kooky, mysterious and spooky families; there was really nothing all that unusual about a talking horse. —Marc Berman, Forbes, 5 Jan. 2025

Jeff, Aubrey, and Alison were like the Three Musketeers of kooky low-budget comedies. —Dan Perry, Newsweek, 4 Jan. 2025

But, Arrietty has an edge that many other kooky girls don’t, one that could offer a good defense if Untucked ever calls for it. —EW.com, 4 Jan. 2025

Word History

First Known Use

1957, in the meaning defined above