as in silly
lacking in seriousness or maturity
it's not appropriate to be goofy at a funeral
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Recent Examples of goofy
As inherently goofy as the practice is—imagine Andy Reid pacing the sidelines in full shoulder-pads-and-helmet regalia, or Mike Brown rocking shorts and a tank top at the Garden—baseball would be diminished in some small way if the managers decided to start wearing street clothes.
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Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 13 Mar. 2026
Step into Lucy Score’s romance universe Score is goofy and humble, ready with a dirty or self-deprecating joke.
—Clare Mulroy, USA Today, 10 Mar. 2026
But now starts a new terrible chapter without my smarter, goofier, and relentlessly selfless other half.
—Sara Tenenbaum, CBS News, 10 Mar. 2026
But this movie gets to show so many different types of personalities and characters and boldness and fearlessness, and these su- per-hot, badass women who are also goofy, silly and cute.
—Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 17 Feb. 2026
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Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 13 Mar. 2026
Step into Lucy Score’s romance universe Score is goofy and humble, ready with a dirty or self-deprecating joke.
—Clare Mulroy, USA Today, 10 Mar. 2026
But now starts a new terrible chapter without my smarter, goofier, and relentlessly selfless other half.
—Sara Tenenbaum, CBS News, 10 Mar. 2026
But this movie gets to show so many different types of personalities and characters and boldness and fearlessness, and these su- per-hot, badass women who are also goofy, silly and cute.
—Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 17 Feb. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for goofy
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And the hour-long results that premiere on the platform Friday are a mix of the cerebral and silly that audiences have come to expect from the Problemista filmmaker and former Saturday Night Live writer.—
Mikey O'Connell,
HollywoodReporter,
27 Mar. 2026
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Now, though, to look only at coaches with UNC already on their resume would be silly.—
Scott Fowler,
Charlotte Observer,
25 Mar. 2026
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Lanzone, 55, finally got his chance after the private equity firm Apollo Global Management paid $5 billion to take over Yahoo in September 2021 — a fraction of its peak $125 billion market value reached during the dot-com boom’s giddy days in early 2000.—
Michael Liedtke,
Fortune,
29 Mar. 2026
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The Braves have every reason to feel giddy about their latest Sale investment.—
Gabriel Burns,
AJC.com,
28 Mar. 2026
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Catcher Logan O’Hoppe picked it up and then threw it away in a futile attempt to get the out at first.—
Jeff Fletcher,
Oc Register,
29 Mar. 2026
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The latter, a wry comedy of futile endeavor, was based on a story by Kiarostami, but Haghighi soon sought to shake off Kiarostami’s influence—and, even more, a prevailing caricature of Iranian cinema that Kiarostami’s style had given rise to.—
Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
27 Mar. 2026
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“Goofy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/goofy. Accessed 3 Apr. 2026.
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