variants
also kookie
1
as in bizarre
different from the ordinary in a way that causes curiosity or suspicion
I'm not sure that someone with such kooky ideas on biology should be teaching the subject to high schoolers
Synonyms & Similar Words
Relevance
Antonyms & Near Antonyms
2
as in silly
showing or marked by a lack of good sense or judgment
a kooky bicyclist who stubbornly refuses to wear a helmet that was a kooky thing to do
Synonyms & Similar Words
Antonyms & Near Antonyms
Example Sentences
Examples are automatically compiled from online sources to
show current usage.
Read More
Opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors.
Send us feedback.
Recent Examples of kooky
Not that kooks would think kooky things.
—
Chris Stirewalt, The Hill, 7 Oct. 2025
There are also instructions for plenty of creepy cocktails and even craft projects for constructing kooky table decor to match.
—Jillian Sederholm, Entertainment Weekly, 1 Oct. 2025
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.
—Chadd Scott, Forbes.com, 19 Sep. 2025
But Christie will always value her time in the kooky universe shaped by the show’s creators and director Tim Burton.
—Dessi Gomez, Deadline, 5 Sep. 2025
See All Example Sentences for kooky
Chris Stirewalt, The Hill, 7 Oct. 2025
There are also instructions for plenty of creepy cocktails and even craft projects for constructing kooky table decor to match.
—Jillian Sederholm, Entertainment Weekly, 1 Oct. 2025
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.
—Chadd Scott, Forbes.com, 19 Sep. 2025
But Christie will always value her time in the kooky universe shaped by the show’s creators and director Tim Burton.
—Dessi Gomez, Deadline, 5 Sep. 2025
See All Example Sentences for kooky
Recent Examples of Synonyms for kooky
Adjective
-
Having stabilized his ship in orbit around the black hole, Dr Hans Reinhardt (a bizarre, OTT performance from Maximilian Schell) now plans to fly into it, assisted by an unquestioning crew of automatons with a very dark origin story.—
Richard Edwards,
Space.com,
8 Feb. 2026
-
That's bizarre to me, especially those two.—
Dalton Ross,
Entertainment Weekly,
8 Feb. 2026
Adjective
-
Don’t feel silly asking at the ski shop.—
Moira McCarthy,
Boston Herald,
11 Feb. 2026
-
Walker offers this diagnosis himself, leeringly dismissing Pearl as a silly mommy, awash with hormones, mildly and minorly hysterical.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
10 Feb. 2026
Adjective
-
From the other side of the window the guard is giving me funny kine looks.—
Jasmin 'Iolani Hakes,
Literary Hub,
5 Feb. 2026
-
But history, which has a funny way of repeating itself, suggests otherwise.—
Stephen Mihm,
Mercury News,
5 Feb. 2026
Adjective
-
But maybe Johnson isn’t stupid.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
11 Feb. 2026
-
Such as the one where the candidate remarked that some white rural Americans were stupid and racist.—
Mark Leibovich,
The Atlantic,
11 Feb. 2026
Adjective
-
In a strange twist, the Max app was developed by VKontakte (VK), which Durov co-founded before selling his shares and leaving Russia in 2014, after Durov said the Kremlin had asked the site to hand over Ukrainian users’ data.—
Ivana Kottasová,
CNN Money,
11 Feb. 2026
-
Paul, the polarizing boxer, has been no stranger to showing emotion.—
Scott Thompson,
FOXNews.com,
10 Feb. 2026
Adjective
-
Straight men, in particular, are only talked about, kept in the background, or appearing as authority figures trying to uphold absurd laws and traditions.—
Murtada Elfadl,
Variety,
13 Feb. 2026
-
Pepsi’s chart is absurd and someone’s going to look stupid when the momentum fades.—
Josh Brown,Sean Russo,
CNBC,
9 Feb. 2026
Adjective
-
By the letter of the current weird law, yes, the officials got it right, but the law is a problem here because Haaland’s reaction should surely not define how the sequence is viewed.—
Simon Hughes,
New York Times,
9 Feb. 2026
-
But hey, this was the '90s, when being weird for weird's sake was a thing, and a creepy animatronic penguin lurking in the shadows and terrorizing humans in a variety of '90s-ish noir settings is definitely that.—
Debby Wolfinsohn,
Entertainment Weekly,
8 Feb. 2026
Adjective
-
Last week, the wind-power green scam artists were back in federal court, arguing to be permitted to keep squandering billions more on those insane offshore windmills that produce next to no energy, but plenty of pollution.—
Howie Carr,
Boston Herald,
1 Feb. 2026
-
That’s the best reaction to these stupid, insane men ruling the world now and trying to grab and dominate the world.—
Georg Szalai,
HollywoodReporter,
31 Jan. 2026
Cite this Entry
“Kooky.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/kooky. Accessed 14 Feb. 2026.
Copy CitationLove words? Need even more definitions?
Merriam-Webster unabridged
