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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]

Merriam Webster's

also kookie adjective (kookier; -est) Date: 1959 having the characteristics of a kook ; crazy, offbeat • kookiness noun

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. (kookier, kookiest) sl. crazy. Derivatives: kookily adv. kookiness n.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

Someone who is kooky is slightly strange or eccentric, but often in a way which makes you like them. (INFORMAL) It's slightly kooky, but I love it... She's been mocked for her kooky ways. ADJ

Moby Thesaurus

abnormal, absurd, anomalous, apish, asinine, balmy, bananas, barmy, bats, batty, beany, befooled, beguiled, besotted, bonkers, brainless, buffoonish, buggy, bughouse, bugs, cockeyed, crackers, crank, crankish, cranky, crazy, credulous, crotchety, cuckoo, curious, daffy, daft, dazed, deviant, deviative, different, dippy, divergent, dizzy, doting, dotty, dumb, eccentric, erratic, exceptional, fatuitous, fatuous, fey, flaky, flipped, fond, fool, foolheaded, foolish, freaked out, freaked-out, freakish, freaky, fruitcakey, fruity, fuddled, funny, futile, gaga, goofy, gulled, haywire, idiocratic, idiosyncratic, idiotic, imbecile, inane, inept, infatuated, insane, irregular, just plain nuts, kinky, loony, loopy, mad, maggoty, maudlin, moronic, nuts, nutty, odd, oddball, off, off the hinges, off the track, off the wall, out, outlandish, passing strange, peculiar, potty, quaint, queer, quirky, round the bend, sappy, screwball, screwballs, screwy, senseless, sentimental, silly, singular, slaphappy, strange, stupid, thoughtless, twisted, unconventional, unearthly, unnatural, wacky, weird, wet, whimsical, witless, wondrous strange