Synonyms of screwy

screwy

adjective

ˈskrü-ē 

1

as in bizarre

different from the ordinary in a way that causes curiosity or suspicion

the counterfeit bills are poorly done and would look screwy to even the untrained eye

Synonyms & Similar Words

• bizarre
• weird
• strange
• funny
• odd
• erratic
• peculiar
• curious
• crazy
• remarkable
• unusual
• eccentric
• abnormal
• whacky
• wacky
• quirky
• unique
• funky
• off-the-wall
• offbeat
• kooky
• outlandish
• kinky
• wild
• out-of-the-way
• quaint
• fantastical
• unconventional
• uncommon
• outré
• outrageous
• off-kilter
• cranky
• rare
• bizarro
• far-out
• weirdo
• queer
• way-out
• extraordinary
• kookie
• rum
• queerish
• fantastic
• freaky
• outstanding
• freakish
• flaky
• aberrant
• shocking
• freak
• spaced-out
• noticeable
• atypical
• striking
• prominent
• phenomenal
• conspicuous
• notable
• idiosyncratic
• phantasmagoric
• out-there
• puzzling
• baffling
• perplexing
• atrocious
• singular
• salient
• phantasmagorical
• unwonted
• unorthodox
• confounding
• bewildering
• mystifying
• nonconformist
• addlepated
• crotchety
• uncustomary
• nonmainstream

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• normal
• typical
• usual
• ordinary
• standard
• average
• commonplace
• routine
• prosaic
• everyday
• conventional
• conservative
• garden
• unremarkable
• familiar
• predictable
• unexceptional
• run-of-the-mill
• common
• workaday
• regular
• expected
• frequent
• conformist
• customary
• habitual
• knee-jerk
• wonted

2

as in psychotic

having or showing a very abnormal or sick state of mind

I was accosted on the downtown street by a woman who seemed to be a bit screwy in the head

Synonyms & Similar Words

• psychotic
• insane
• mad
• lunatic
• nuts
• crazy
• mental
• maniacal
• gaga
• paranoid
• whacky
• maniac
• strange
• paranoidal
• crazed
• disturbed
• haywire
• wacky
• deranged
• psycho
• unbalanced
• whacko
• cracked
• looney
• demented
• wacko
• nutty
• irrational
• unhinged
• loony
• cuckoo
• odd
• kooky
• daft
• eccentric
• ballistic
• daffy
• around the bend
• bedlam
• crackbrained
• scatty
• bonkers
• depressed
• batty
• certifiable
• loony tunes
• out to lunch
• foolish
• unreasonable
• moonstruck
• barmy
• unsound
• meshuga
• bughouse
• non compos mentis
• loco
• crackpot
• brainsick
• kookie
• obsessed
• bats
• cranky
• balmy
• meshugah
• distracted
• looney tunes
• loopy
• distraught
• frantic
• meshuggah
• meshugge
• wud
• hysteric
• fruity
• fey
• off
• schizoid
• schizophrenic
• oddball
• neurotic
• disordered
• hysterical
• tetched
• out of one's mind
• aberrant
• paranoic
• queer
• off one's rocker
• delusional
• off one's gourd
• crackers
• obsessive-compulsive
• delirious
• sociopathic
• off one's head
• paranoiac
• delusionary
• touched
• out of one's head
• dotty
• nuclear
• pixilated
• pixillated
• berserk
• amuck
• witless
• potty
• teched
• wigged-out
• senseless
• amok
• monomaniacal
• frenzied
• fixated
• ape
• raving
• monomaniac
• bananas

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• sound
• reasonable
• sane
• balanced
• clear
• rational
• normal
• wise
• sensible
• lucid
• uncrazy
• judicious
• compos mentis
• healthy
• well-adjusted
• unneurotic

Examples of screwy in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

In a screwy year like this, who knows what's going to happen? —Mark Anderson, USA TODAY, 11 Jan. 2024

There's something decidedly screwy about Adele, and Louise comes to realize that there are supernatural forces at work. —Danny Horn, EW.com, 24 Jan. 2024

In the previous four series matchups, excluding the screwy 2020 season, FSU had outscored New Mexico 151-23. 12. —Jon Wilner, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Nov. 2023

In the still-painful dénouement of pandemic-era TV and movie supply-chain chaos, and not quite out from under the dark shadow of last year’s Great Netflix Panic, showbiz revenue streams have arguably never been more screwy. —Vulture, 13 Nov. 2023