variants
or less commonly looney
loonier; looniest
looniness
noun
loony
noun
plural loonies
Synonyms
- absurd
- asinine
- balmy
- brainless
- bubbleheaded
- cockeyed
- crackpot
- crazy
- cuckoo
- daffy
- daft
- dippy
- dotty
- fatuous
- featherheaded
- fool
- foolish
- half-baked
- half-witted
- harebrained
- inept
- insane
- jerky
- kooky
- kookie
- lunatic
- lunkheaded
- mad
- nonsensical
- nutty
- preposterous
- sappy
- screwball
- senseless
- silly
- simpleminded
- stupid
- tomfool
- unwise
- wacky
- whacky
- weak-minded
- witless
- zany
Examples of loony in a Sentence
Every family includes someone who's a little loony.
that's got to be the looniest idea I've ever heard
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Harrelson has a small but impressively loony role as a crazed hermit who claims to anyone who will listen that the end of days is here.
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One of our region's most famous comics, Michael Hawthorne, built a career from illustrating the loony loudmouth.
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Holland treats the idea of a loony murderer’s spirit occupying a doll’s form with an uncommon seriousness.
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Bob Strauss, Los Angeles Times, 3 Dec. 2024
Harrelson has a small but impressively loony role as a crazed hermit who claims to anyone who will listen that the end of days is here.
—Tim Grierson, Vulture, 14 July 2024
One of our region's most famous comics, Michael Hawthorne, built a career from illustrating the loony loudmouth.
—Isaac Avilucea, Axios, 18 Oct. 2024
Holland treats the idea of a loony murderer’s spirit occupying a doll’s form with an uncommon seriousness.
—Declan Gallagher, EW.com, 15 Sep. 2024
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“Loony.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/loony. Accessed 24 Dec. 2024.
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loony
adjective
loo·ny
variants
also looney
loonier; looniest
: very foolish or eccentric
looniness
noun
loony
noun
Etymology
an altered form of lunatic (adjective)
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