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Synonyms of daft in English:

daft


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adjective

1‘that's a daft idea’

SYNONYMS
absurd, preposterous, ridiculous, ludicrous, farcical, laughable, risible
idiotic, stupid, foolish, foolhardy, unwise, imprudent, ill-conceived, silly, inane, puerile, infantile, fatuous, imbecilic, hare-brained, half-baked
unreasonable, irrational, illogical, nonsensical, pointless, senseless, impracticable, unworkable, unrealistic
peculiar, odd, strange, queer, weird, eccentric, bizarre, fantastic, incongruous, grotesque
informal crazy, cock-eyed
British informal barmy, potty
ANTONYMS

sensible

2‘are you daft or something?’

SYNONYMS
simple-minded, simple, stupid, idiotic, moronic, imbecilic, dull-witted, dull, dim-witted, slow-witted, slow, witless, half-witted, feeble-minded, dunce-like, cretinous, empty-headed, vacuous, vapid
deranged, unhinged, insane, mad
informal touched, thick, dim, dopey, dumb, dozy, birdbrained, pea-brained, pig-ignorant, bovine, slow on the uptake, soft in the head, brain-dead, boneheaded, lamebrained, chuckleheaded, dunderheaded, wooden-headed, fat-headed, muttonheaded, not all there, not quite right, crazy, mental, nuts, nutty, cracked, cuckoo, bonkers, dippy
British informal not the full shilling, dotty, potty, batty, crackers, barmy, thick as two short planks
North American informal dumb-ass

3‘she's daft about him’

SYNONYMS
infatuated with, enamoured of, obsessed by, smitten with, besotted by, doting on, very fond of
informal crazy, wild, mad, nutty, nuts, gone on
informal, dated sweet on
British informal potty