English Explanatory Dictionary

screwy

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. Crazy; silly; ridiculous
  2. Tipsy; slightly drunk.
  3. Exacting; extortionate; close.
  4. Worthless.

Pronunciation

/ˈskɹuː.i/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-screwy.wav

Word forms

screwy screwier more screwy screwiest most screwy

Etymology

From screw + -y. 1820, original meaning “tipsy, slightly drunk”; meaning “crazy, ridiculous” first recorded 1887.

Synonyms

5150 bananas barking barking mad buggish buggy bughouse barmy batchy batpoop bats batty bonkers bread baskets cracked crackers cra-cra cray cray-cray crazed crazy crazy as a bedbug crazy as a cootie crazy as a cootie bug crazy as a pet coon cuckoo daffy daft demented deranged distraught disturbed doolally dotty eccentric fruit loops gaga hatstand harebrained insane kooky loon loco loony loony tunes loopy lunatic mad mental mentally ill meshigener meshugge moonsick nerts non compos mentis nonsane nucking futs nut job nutballs nut

Related words

have a screw loose screwball screw up
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