kooky

adjective

ˈkü-kē 

variants or less commonly kookie

kookier; kookiest

: having the characteristics of a kook : offbeat, eccentric

kookiness noun

Synonyms

• bizarre
• bizarro
• cranky
• crazy
• curious
• eccentric
• erratic
• far-out
• funky
• funny
• kinky
• odd
• off-kilter
• off-the-wall
• offbeat
• out-of-the-way
• outlandish
• outré
• peculiar
• quaint
• queer
• queerish
• quirky
• remarkable
• rum [chiefly British]
• screwy
• spaced-out
• strange
• wacky
• whacky
• way-out
• weird
• weirdo
• wild

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

Recent Examples on the Web

But this comedy is infused with such kooky energy that these problems don’t even really register among all the gags. —Gayle Sequeira, Vulture, 10 Oct. 2024

In her portrayal of kooky masseuse-musician Phoebe Buffay, Lisa Kudrow was clearly paying homage to Garr. —Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 30 Oct. 2024

In a bloody good mix of horror comedy and murder mystery, Sam Richardson plays a naive but good-hearted forest ranger new to a small Vermont town out to catch a killer (who may or may not be a werewolf) among the various kooky residents. 55. —Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 25 Oct. 2024

With stacks of set pieces ranging from kooky to crazy, this doesn’t hold back with the Venomenal action. —Michaela Zee, Variety, 22 Oct. 2024

Word History

First Known Use

1957, in the meaning defined above