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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: informal or slang terms for mentally irregular; "it used to drive my husband balmy" [syn: balmy, barmy, bats, batty, bonkers, buggy, cracked, crackers, daft, dotty, fruity, haywire, kooky, kookie, loco, loony, loopy, nuts, nutty, round the bend, around the bend, wacky, whacky]
2: intensely enthusiastic about or preoccupied with; "crazy about cars and racing"; "he is potty about her" [syn: crazy, wild, dotty, gaga]

Merriam Webster's

I. adjective (dottier; -est) Etymology: alteration of Scots dottle fool, from Middle English dotel, from doten Date: 15th century 1. a. mentally unbalanced ; crazy b. amiably eccentric <a dotty old relative> 2. being obsessed or infatuated <dotty fans> 3. amusingly absurd ; ridiculous <dotty traditions> • dottily adverb • dottiness noun II. adjective Date: 1812 composed of or marked by dots

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. (dottier, dottiest) colloq. 1 feeble-minded, silly. 2 eccentric. 3 absurd. 4 (foll. by about, on) infatuated with; obsessed by. Derivatives: dottily adv. dottiness n. Etymology: earlier = unsteady: f. DOT(1) + -Y(1)

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Dotty Dot"ty, a. [From 2d Dot.] 1. Composed of, or characterized by, dots. 2. [Perh. a different word; cf. Totty.] Unsteady in gait; hence, feeble; half-witted. [Eng.]

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(dottier, dottiest) If you say that someone is dotty, you mean that they are slightly mad or likely to do strange things. (mainly BRIT INFORMAL) She was obviously going a bit dotty. ADJ

Moby Thesaurus

abnormal, absurd, anomalous, balmy, bananas, barmy, bats, batty, beany, besotted, bespangled, blotched, blotchy, bonkers, buggy, bughouse, bugs, crackers, crank, crankish, cranky, crazy, crotchety, cuckoo, daffy, deviant, deviative, different, dippy, divergent, dotted, eccentric, enamored, erratic, exceptional, fantastic, fey, flaky, flea-bitten, flecked, fleckered, flipped, freaked-out, freakish, frecked, freckled, freckly, fruitcakey, fruity, funny, gaga, goofy, haywire, idiocratic, idiosyncratic, infatuate, insane, irregular, just plain nuts, kinky, kooky, loony, loopy, macular, maculate, maculated, maggoty, nuts, nutty, odd, oddball, off the hinges, off the track, off the wall, patchy, peculiar, peppered, pocked, pockmarked, pocky, pointille, pointillistic, polka-dot, potty, preposterous, punctated, queer, quirky, round the bend, screwball, screwballs, screwy, singular, slaphappy, spangled, specked, speckled, speckledy, speckly, splotched, splotchy, spotted, spotty, sprinkled, stippled, strange, studded, twisted, unconventional, unnatural, wacky, whimsical