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daft

/dæft/adjective1 syllable

Daft means: informal or slang terms for mentally irregular.

Synonyms for daft37

adjective, as in informal or slang terms for mentally irregular

balmy, barmy, bats, batty, bonkers, buggy, cracked, crackers, dotty, fruity, haywire, kooky, kookie, loco
and 9 more, loony, loopy, nuts, nutty, round the bend, around the bend, wacky, whacky, insane

also used for daft

asinine, bedaft, derpy, dim-headed, dim-witted, dopey, 5150, bananas, barking, barking mad, buggish, bughouse, batchy, batpoop

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What does daft mean?1

adjective

1

informal or slang terms for mentally irregular“it used to drive my husband balmy”

Definitions from the Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What rhymes with daft?10

one syllable

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Show 40 near rhymes
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Daft in a sentence

  • Whoever reads this so-called newspaper every day will inevitably go daft.patgfisher
  • You probably couldn't have come up with an idea more daft.sundown
  • Only you could come up with such a daft idea.sundown
  • I'm not so daft as to lend him money.sundown
  • We realised that our austerity cuts were a totally daft idea.sundown
  • I never follow rules as daft as those.sundown
  • You have to be quite daft to believe that.sundown
  • You have to be daft to believe that.sundown

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Forms of daft

as a adjective

comparative
dafter
superlative
daftest