Kooky

Quick meaning: Kooky is an adjective meaning (surfing) Behaving like a kook (a person with poor style or skill); kook-like.

Meaning

(surfing) Behaving like a kook (a person with poor style or skill); kook-like.

More Meanings

1. (childish) Alternative form of kookie (“kookaburra”).
2. (slang) Eccentric, strange, or foolish; crazy or insane; kookish.

Example Sentences

His kooky behavior seemed charming at first, but soon got on our nerves.

There's a KANGAROO jumping on a trampoline. / Isn't that a KOOKY thing, / To see a KANGAROO jumping on a trampoline?

Your child will use your crazy answers as a model for inventing his or her own. That's why the more imaginative and far-out your answers are, the kookier your child's answers will be. And the kookier the better—because in this game, kookiness stretches the imagination.

Juke box playin' in the jungle / No charge, absolutely free / Soft drinks bubbling down a mountain / To the Carabean^([sic – meaning Caribbean]) sea: / What A Kookie Little Paradise / What A Kookie Little Paradise / Never was an island half as nice / As my Kookie Little Paradise.

Word Forms

• kookier
• kookiest
• kookie
• kookies

Synonyms for kooky

Depending on context, synonyms include bonkers, kookish, outlandish, wacky, balmy, loony.

Antonyms for kooky

Common opposites include conventional, mainstream, normal, ordinary, straight, uneccentric.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include barmy, dotty, batty, loony, insane, bonkers.

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