daft

Speech parts

1. daft - Adjective

2. daft - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Stupid; foolish; idiotic; also, delirious; insane; as, he has gone daft.

Gay; playful; frolicsome.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

batty wacky bonkers barmy nuts loco dotty mad loony half-baked insane absurd crazy cracked ridiculous
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Antonyms

sound sage lucid sapient politic practical
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Related terms

deft

Phrases with the word

daft laddie as daft as a brush be daft daft person daft sod daft girl

Anagrams

DFAT

Examples

We thought being offered the M. B. E. [Member of the Order of the British Empire] was as funny as everybody else thought it was. Why? What for? We didn't believe it. It was a part we didn't want. We all met and agreed it was daft. John Lennon

He claimed that nearby gun thunder cleared the mind-but most everybody else agreed it made you daft. Vernor Vinge

There is a legend. And to protest is daft. Peter O'Toole

Some word that teems with hidden meaning, like "Basingstoke". It might recall me to my saner self. For, after all, I am only Mad Margaret! Daft Meg! Poor Meg! He! he! he! W. S. Gilbert

What if Mr Mah is unable to defend himself, he deserves to lose? No country in the world has given its citizens an asset as valuable as what we've given every family here. And if you say that policy is at fault, you must be daft. Lee Kuan Yew

If i had a dog as daft as you i would shoot him. Scottish Proverb

Close letter words and terms

Dafni Dafnion Dafoe daft as a brush daft girl daft laddie