What does screwy mean?
Screwy means (informal) Crazy; silly; ridiculous.
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/ˈskɹuː.i/ · adjective
(informal) Crazy; silly; ridiculous.
That's a screwy idea; I am not going to fly all the way to Antarctica just to see a penguin!
Pretend it never happened. The insurance business is completely screwy now. You know they’ve reintroduced the death penalty for insurance company directors?
Now, you don't actually have to have another printer in order to add another printer. This might sound a bit screwy on my part, but it is true.
"A tipsy man," said Spearman, "is generally noisy ; and I confess I was screwy on Wednesday."
Screwy [skroo'i], adj. mean ; stingy ; parsimonious. Alto, slightly intoxicated.
I saw my hearty out of the yard, with his pink peeping out of his Macintosh, on his screwy old black horse, and I heard from my fair waiter that he had been vaunting that he would lick us all into fits.
Use screwy when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Screwy means (informal) Crazy; silly; ridiculous.
Common synonyms include 5150, bananas, barking, barking mad.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
That's a screwy idea; I am not going to fly all the way to Antarctica just to see a penguin!
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