as in eccentric
a person of odd or whimsical habits
if you insist on painting your house bright orange, everyone will assume you are a kook
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Recent Examples of kook
Before, a typical kook at Linda Mar would cut you off, fall, and apologize while laughing at himself.
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Jay Caspian Kang, The New Yorker, 8 Mar. 2024
Now Rodgers is considered by many to be a kook, someone who let himself get hoodwinked by junk science and conspiracies.
—USA TODAY, 10 Jan. 2024
Emma Stone’s monster turn Poor Things Emma Stone and Yorgos Lanthimos are back with another archly funny period piece about a bunch of kooks.
—Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 29 Aug. 2023
Others were kooks, and some were dangerous scoundrels—or some combination thereof.
—Roy Berendsohn, Popular Mechanics, 24 Aug. 2023
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Jay Caspian Kang, The New Yorker, 8 Mar. 2024
Now Rodgers is considered by many to be a kook, someone who let himself get hoodwinked by junk science and conspiracies.
—USA TODAY, 10 Jan. 2024
Emma Stone’s monster turn Poor Things Emma Stone and Yorgos Lanthimos are back with another archly funny period piece about a bunch of kooks.
—Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 29 Aug. 2023
Others were kooks, and some were dangerous scoundrels—or some combination thereof.
—Roy Berendsohn, Popular Mechanics, 24 Aug. 2023
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for kook
Noun
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Would love to know what these career eccentrics make of the pomp and pageantry of the Grammys.—
August Brown,
Los Angeles Times,
3 Feb. 2025
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Foreman was one of the last living crossover theatrical eccentrics, an outsider artist whose philosophically rigorous work for downtown micro-audiences alternated with engagements at Lincoln Center and the Festival d’Automne, in Paris.—
Helen Shaw,
The New Yorker,
9 Jan. 2025
Noun
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Taran Noah Smith, the actor who played Mark, the youngest son of Tim (Tim Allen) and Jill (Patricia Richardson) on the sitcom, recently explained the surprising origins of his character turning goth seemingly out of nowhere.—
Lauren Huff,
EW.com,
4 Mar. 2025
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The trio played characters who died in the franchise and are returning in a surprise way.—
Rosy Cordero,
Deadline,
4 Mar. 2025
Noun
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Of course, centuries of bizarre medical solutions have proven that a small volume of patients can seemingly recover from almost any condition regardless of whatever crackpot solution is administered.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
22 Feb. 2025
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Bobby Kennedy and his crackpot ideas will do great harm to Americans.—
New York Daily News Editorial Board,
New York Daily News,
29 Jan. 2025
Noun
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Would that generally be your advice to the next weirdo in the cast?—
Nicholas Quah,
Vulture,
20 Feb. 2025
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Her versatility as a performer laid the groundwork for future legends like Amy Poehler, Kristen Wiig, and Kate McKinnon to embrace their own eccentric weirdos.—
Dennis Perkins,
EW.com,
16 Feb. 2025
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“Kook.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/kook. Accessed 8 Mar. 2025.
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