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

The 38-piece capsule captures the show’s sense of kooky nautical nonsense, the lovable yellow sponge’s face crocheted into a pipsqueak-sized tote bag, printed onto swim trunks, and plastered on slingback espadrilles. —Violet Goldstone, WWD, 20 Mar. 2025

Her bees are tended by her kooky beekeeper, who obviously does all the hive maintenance until Meghan shows up for the fun parts, such as when the honey gets scraped from the combs. —Kathryn Vanarendonk, Vulture, 5 Mar. 2025

People who exercised for fun were often seen as kooky. —Danielle Friedman, New York Times, 15 Jan. 2025

Aduba shines as Cordelia, carefully finding the balance between kooky humor and an air of gravitas. —Photo: Courtesy Of Warner Bros. Pictures., refinery29.com, 3 Mar. 2025

Word History

First Known Use

1957, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for kooky

• spooky