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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This kooky courtroom drama finds Andy Sachs—at start a perfectly happy publisher at a small university press—being sued by her former employer for apparent NDA violations.
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Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 28 July 2025
Megan Stalter, who brilliantly plays the kooky but complicated Kayla Schaeffer from the Best Supporting Actress in a Comedy category.
—Marc Berman, Forbes.com, 15 July 2025
Jenna Ortega is all set to return as Wednesday Addams for another year of kooky, macabre hijinks.
—Bryan Alexander, USA Today, 11 July 2025
In Too Much, Megan Stalter’s Jessica Salmon describes her fantasies of life across the pond within other artists’ quotation marks: A little like a period drama, a little like a kooky BBC Three sitcom, a lot like Bridget Jones’s Diary.
—Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 10 July 2025
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Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 28 July 2025
Megan Stalter, who brilliantly plays the kooky but complicated Kayla Schaeffer from the Best Supporting Actress in a Comedy category.
—Marc Berman, Forbes.com, 15 July 2025
Jenna Ortega is all set to return as Wednesday Addams for another year of kooky, macabre hijinks.
—Bryan Alexander, USA Today, 11 July 2025
In Too Much, Megan Stalter’s Jessica Salmon describes her fantasies of life across the pond within other artists’ quotation marks: A little like a period drama, a little like a kooky BBC Three sitcom, a lot like Bridget Jones’s Diary.
—Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 10 July 2025
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“Kooky.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/kooky. Accessed 6 Aug. 2025.
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