Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Extremely foolish or silly.
- adj. Crazy; insane.
- n. A foolish or crazy person.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. See luny.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Low, U.S. Crazy; insane; lunatic; mentally unsound. See Luny.
- adj. Very foolish; very impractical.
- n. someone mentally deranged and possibly dangerous.
WordNet 3.0
- n. someone deranged and possibly dangerous
- adj. informal or slang terms for mentally irregular
Etymologies
- Shortened from lunatic (Wiktionary)
- Shortening and alteration of lunatic, or from loon2. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Sorry about using the term loony left - I've been spending too much time looking at Labour Home - I think a £7 an hour minimum wage and renewable energy policies are nuts though.”
“His climate change misstep follows several reversals on issues and just plain loony comments on gays, women, Medicare, Social Security and taxes.”
“Like the man says, theres alcoholisum, suicde and violence in loony toons and these are deamed ok for kids how do you people think this is worse?”
“I've posted several articles that quote British "nutritionists" making overblown or just plain loony claims about milk and dairy allergy.”
“Zach Exley is the fringe left, and has been traveling in loony left circles for years.”
“I knew steph would not produce a link to back up her claim that 'However I do not regard him as 'loony' - it was more a reference to the accusation by some atheist/agnostic bloggers that *all of us biblical historians are 'loony'* and 'absurd”
“However I do not regard him as 'loony' - it was more a reference to the accusation by some atheist/agnostic bloggers that all of us biblical historians are 'loony' and 'absurd”
“So it is a matter of trying to clarify the point - often overlooked in the urge to describe anyone who holds a Christian view of marriage as a 'loony' - that the institution of Christian marriage functions in a very different way from that of civil unions.”
John Terry’s sacking as England captain tells us something interesting...
“I think we live in loony land these days, and the usual rules don’t apply.”
“Above all it’s a dumb strategy for trying to influence anyone, as has been shown by the backlash to these demonstrations even in loony-left SF.”
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Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘loony’.
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Bonkers
List for old and new terms and phrases meaning crazy, nuts, batty, prone to extreme nervousness, etc.
bonkers, crazy, nuts, batty, batchy, bats in the belfry, scatty, crackers, windy, gone crackers, cracked, dingo and 92 more...
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funny & derogatory
WARNING: VERY EXPLICIT. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED.
funny derogatory names, quotes, phrases.
( open list, randomness, ad hom, ad hominem )
also see:
buttfucking quitter, dirty sanchez, donkey punch, falcon punch, assbadger, unicorn turd, assclown, fudgenut, quackery, friggin homo, buttmuncher, jackwagon and 292 more... -
The Pain of Texting
Words that are a pain in the ass to type in on a numerical keypad on a cell phone because they have consecutive letters that share the same button:
2 - ABC
3 - DEF
4 - GHI...defcon, hi, no, attitude, xylophone, on, monday, monkey, mono, dig, back, babble and 212 more...
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Mentally irregular
Words for the mentally irregular
bonkers, unhinged, batshit crazy, cognitive dissonance, apophenia, undone, loony, unsound, deranged, a bit off the beam, daft, stark ravin' mad and 65 more...
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Insult Words
A rich collection of all the ways you can insult someone's intelligence.
idiot, cretin, moron, dimwit, nincompoop, meathead, addlepate, dingbat, dumbbell, dunce, fool, halfwit and 31 more...
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Bonkers
crackers, barmy, half-baked, mental, unhinged, barking, cuckoo, cracked, nuts, mad, insane, touched and 24 more...
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Time for a new list!
abrupt, erupt, rupture, sync, appropinquity, heterochromia, homochromatic, monochromatic, willy nilly, nitty gritty, kowtow, wonton and 455 more...
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The "dark" things
grave, dead, death, die, died, dies, murder, murdered, murderer, murders, murdering, murderous and 115 more...
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Mad as a March hare
Words to describe the mad, the insane, the... well, me.
unhinged, unglued, mental, fruitcake, lunatic, nutter, potty, dippy, kooky, batty, daft, cuckoo and 20 more...
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loonie
Inspired by Peter Reading's "Euphemisms".
crackers, potty, loony, bonkers, nutty, screwy, ga-ga, dull, strange, do-lally, dopey, silly and 83 more...
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hush's list
ragamuffin, morsel, vex, scurvy, mumble, egomaniacal, audacious, swarm, sever, loony, alien, putter
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mad
freak, mad, crazy, nut, psycho, silly, sick, loony, weird, lunatic, paranoid, bonkers
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the 'voice' of reason
A wise man once said: Threats are the last resort of a man with no vocabulary.
recreant, ninny, nincompoop, sapskull, lunatic, buffoon, domnoddy, half-wit, imbecile, spineless, craven, maggot and 26 more...
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Animal Magnetism
Adjectives derived from animal names but used to describe people
dogged, foxy, bearish, bullish, pigheaded, birdbrained, catty, wolfish, bullheaded, horsy, weaselly, squirrelly and 39 more...
Tweets
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