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daft adjective [ dɑːft ]

• silly; foolish.
• "don't ask such daft questions"
Similar: 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, crazy, cock-eyed, barmy, potty, simple-minded, simple, moronic, dull-witted, dull, dim-witted, slow-witted, slow, witless, half-witted, feeble-minded, dunce-like, cretinous, empty-headed, vacuous, vapid, deranged, unhinged, insane, mad, 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, mental, nuts, nutty, cracked, cuckoo, bonkers, dippy, not the full shilling, dotty, batty, crackers, thick as two short planks, dumb-ass,
Opposite: sensible,
Origin: Old English gedæfte ‘mild, meek’, of Germanic origin; related to Gothic gabadan ‘become or be fitting’.


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