Synonyms for wacky
ˈwæk iwack·y

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1. wackyadjective

   Synonyms:
   zany, eccentric

2. wackyadjective

   Of a person or their behaviour, zany.

   Synonyms:
   zany, eccentric

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1. cockamamie, cockamamy, goofy, sappy, silly, wacky, whacky, zanyadjective

   ludicrous, foolish

   "gave me a cockamamie reason for not going"; "wore a goofy hat"; "a silly idea"; "some wacky plan for selling more books"

   Synonyms:
   slaphappy, crackers, light-headed, ridiculous, round the bend, lightheaded, nutty, punch-drunk, dotty, featherbrained, sappy, kooky, daft, bats, empty-headed, clownish, airheaded, fruity, nuts, bonkers, clownlike, cracked, haywire, loco, kookie, buggy, zany, silly, goofy, pathetic, dizzy, batty, cockamamy, loony, barmy, cockamamie, buffoonish, around the bend, balmy, giddy, loopy, whacky

   Antonyms:
   wise, sane

2. balmy, barmy, bats, batty, bonkers, buggy, cracked, crackers, daft, dotty, fruity, haywire, kooky, kookie, loco, loony, loopy, nuts, nutty, round the bend, around the bend, wacky, whackyadjective

   informal or slang terms for mentally irregular

   "it used to drive my husband balmy"

   Synonyms:
   crackers, nutlike, roughened, round the bend, bats, gaga, cockamamy, zesty, buggy, dotty, soft, kooky, daft, fruity, alligatored, zestful, kookie, nuts, sappy, bonkers, cracked, haywire, nutty, wrong(p), loco, wild, chapped, zany, silly, amiss(p), mild, awry(p), batty, crazy, loony, yeasty, barmy, cockamamie, goofy, around the bend, balmy, loopy, whacky

   Antonyms:
   wise, sane

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1. List of paraphrases for "wacky":

   crazy, knock-knock

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How to use wacky in a sentence?

1. Neil Saunders:

   The wacky mix of ingredients is on brand for Cup Noodle, which often fuses traditional noodles with local flavors that it thinks will be appealing to consumers.

2. Eric Rubin:

   The amount of approval they needed for everything is just wacky.

3. Donald Trump:

   Wacky Jacky is campaigning with Pocahontas, you believe this ? In your state ! Can you believe this ? when you see that, that's not the senator you want.

4. Barry Schwartz:

   We've had a pretty good start to the year for the Toronto market. It's beaten some of the other U.S. indices and it's having a pretty good month. End of the month can always be wacky and weird and people are positioning their portfolios.

5. Talesa Marie Chartrand:

   I'm a little wacky doodle, a sketch mcgetch, half ass between day dreaming and paranoid.