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
Baseball being goofy, here’s a random piece of trivia for Padres fans to chew on — along with Cracker Jack — during the 2025 home opener Thursday against the visiting Braves.
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Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Mar. 2025
The musical adaptation directed by Marc Webb and scripted by Erin Cressida Wilson is deeply earnest and sincere, with all the narrative heft and innocently goofy humor of a Disney Channel original movie.
—Katie Walsh, Twin Cities, 20 Mar. 2025
Appropriately goofy hair and wig designs, when called for, are supplied by Peter Herman while Stephen Gifford’s period scenic designs support the on-stage doings admirably.
—Christopher Smith, Orange County Register, 17 Mar. 2025
The sketch is broad, goofy and dumb in a good way.
—Rosa Escandon, Forbes, 9 Mar. 2025
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Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Mar. 2025
The musical adaptation directed by Marc Webb and scripted by Erin Cressida Wilson is deeply earnest and sincere, with all the narrative heft and innocently goofy humor of a Disney Channel original movie.
—Katie Walsh, Twin Cities, 20 Mar. 2025
Appropriately goofy hair and wig designs, when called for, are supplied by Peter Herman while Stephen Gifford’s period scenic designs support the on-stage doings admirably.
—Christopher Smith, Orange County Register, 17 Mar. 2025
The sketch is broad, goofy and dumb in a good way.
—Rosa Escandon, Forbes, 9 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for goofy
Adjective
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This strategy worked for him for about 10 years—and then began to bore him silly.—
Art Spiegelman,
The Atlantic,
9 Apr. 2025
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Props to the people who green-lit Angry Birds to give kids a silly movie about infanticide.—
Jordan Crucchiola,
Vulture,
4 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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The Front Range faithful who two summers ago lined the streets of downtown Denver, giddy to the last.—
Sean Keeler,
Denver Post,
12 Apr. 2025
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By turns giddy, anxious, and despairing, these poems have endeared him to generations of ordinary readers who find in the tempestuous and ultimately brokenhearted poet a strikingly modern and profoundly accessible figure.—
Daniel Mendelsohn,
New Yorker,
31 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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Impeachment of judges, however, is widely seen as a futile endeavor on Capitol Hill.—
Tara Suter,
The Hill,
3 Apr. 2025
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The confrontation ends in an electric if futile horse chase.—
Amanda Whiting,
Vulture,
23 Mar. 2025
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“Goofy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/goofy. Accessed 24 Apr. 2025.
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