variants
or less commonly kookie
kookier; kookiest
kookiness
noun
Examples of kooky in a Sentence
I'm not sure that someone with such kooky ideas on biology should be teaching the subject to high schoolers.
if you think that drugs aren't bad for you, you haven't met that guy's kooky friends
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There’s all these futurist painters and designers around, kooky poets like Filippo Marinetti who could out-beat the Beatniks who’ll come two generations later.
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Chadd Scott, Forbes.com, 19 Sep. 2025
Bill Daily starred as their kooky neighbor Howard Borden, while at work, Newhart's Hartley had two more pals including Dr. Jerry Robinson (Peter Bonerz) and Carol Kester (Marcia Wallace).
—Julie Tremaine, PEOPLE, 16 Sep. 2025
Known for Los Espookys, Fantasmas, and Problemista (along with some of SNL’s funnier and kookier bits of the past few years), Torres feels — kind of like Cole Escola and Chris Fleming — like a cause for hope in our mostly terrorizing present.
—Sara Holdren, Vulture, 11 Sep. 2025
But that’s certainly not the case with the leads, especially Corrin, who can look chic, gamine and supple as a birch tree in anything, as proven by their frequent modeling and catwalk gigs for Miu Miu and their ability to make the kookiest of outfits work on the red carpet.
—Leslie Felperin, HollywoodReporter, 5 Sep. 2025
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Chadd Scott, Forbes.com, 19 Sep. 2025
Bill Daily starred as their kooky neighbor Howard Borden, while at work, Newhart's Hartley had two more pals including Dr. Jerry Robinson (Peter Bonerz) and Carol Kester (Marcia Wallace).
—Julie Tremaine, PEOPLE, 16 Sep. 2025
Known for Los Espookys, Fantasmas, and Problemista (along with some of SNL’s funnier and kookier bits of the past few years), Torres feels — kind of like Cole Escola and Chris Fleming — like a cause for hope in our mostly terrorizing present.
—Sara Holdren, Vulture, 11 Sep. 2025
But that’s certainly not the case with the leads, especially Corrin, who can look chic, gamine and supple as a birch tree in anything, as proven by their frequent modeling and catwalk gigs for Miu Miu and their ability to make the kookiest of outfits work on the red carpet.
—Leslie Felperin, HollywoodReporter, 5 Sep. 2025
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“Kooky.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/kooky. Accessed 21 Sep. 2025.
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