Meaning of DAFT
Pronunciation: | | daft
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| Definition: | | [adj] informal or slang terms for mentally irregular; "it used to drive my husband balmy" |
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| Synonyms: | | around the bend, balmy, barmy, bats, batty, bonkers, buggy, cracked, crackers, dotty, fruity, haywire, insane, kookie, kooky, loco, loony, loopy, nuts, nutty, round the bend, wacky, whacky |
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Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| Definition: | | \Daft\ (d[.a]ft), a. [OE. daft, deft, deft, stupid; prob.
the same word as E. deft. See {Deft}.]
1. Stupid; foolish; idiotic; also, delirious; insane; as, he
has gone daft.
Let us think no more of this daft business --Sir W.
Scott.
2. Gay; playful; frolicsome. [Scot.] --Jamieson.
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| Related Terms: | | abnormal, absurd, apish, asinine, batty, bedlamite, befooled, beguiled, bereft of reason, besotted, boneheaded, brainless, brainsick, buffoonish, cockamamie, cockeyed, crackbrained, cracked, crazed, crazy, crazy about, credulous, cretinous, daffy, dazed, deluded, demented, deprived of reason, deranged, dim-witted, disoriented, distraught, dizzy, dopey, doting, dumb, fatuitous, fatuous, fat-witted, flaky, flighty, fond, fool, foolheaded, foolish, fuddled, futile, gaga, giddy, goofy, gulled, hallucinated, idiotic, imbecile, imbecilic, inane, inept, infatuated, infatuated with, insane, irrational, kooky, loco, loony, lunatic, mad, mad about, maddened, manic, maudlin, mazed, mental, mentally deficient, meshuggah, moon-struck, moronic, non compos, non compos mentis, nonsensical, not all there, not right, nuts about, nutty, obtuse, odd, of unsound mind, off, psycho, queer, reasonless, ridiculous, sappy, screwy, senseless, sentimental, sick, silly, slow-witted, stark-mad, stark-staring mad, strange, stupid, sweet on, tetched, thoughtless, touched, unbalanced, unhinged, unsane, unsettled, unsound, wacky, wandering, weak-minded, wet, witless |
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