screwier
Even more unhinged
Screwier is the comparative form of screwy, meaning more eccentric, bizarre, or absurd than something else: The plot got screwier with each episode.
It describes situations, ideas, or people that seem increasingly off-kilter or nonsensical: His explanations just kept getting screwier.
Idiosyncratically unusual
- weirderMore strange
- kookierMore bizarre or odd
- zanierMore absurdly comical
- odderMore unusual than before
whimsical · idiosyncratic · offbeat · unorthodox · outlandish · peculiar · oddball · droll
Person not yet known
- weirderMore strange
- surrealDreamlike and strange
- absurdWildly illogical
- preposterousCompletely contrary to reason
grotesque · kafkaesque · phantasmagoric · unearthly · otherworldly · fantastical · inexplicable · uncanny
Operating incorrectly or failing
- glitchyProne to malfunctions
- buggyHorse-drawn cart
- faultyHaving defects or errors
- brokenDamaged beyond function
unreliable · haywire · wonky · erratic · temperamental · finicky · dysfunctional · janky
More difficult to handle
- thornierMore prickly or problematic
- knottierMore complex or intricate
- messierMore disordered or cluttered
- complicatedDifficult to understand
problematic · troublesome · convoluted · perplexing · vexing · confounding · baffling · muddled
quirky
Idiosyncratically unusual
odder · whimsical · idiosyncratic · offbeat · unorthodox · outlandish · peculiar · oddball · droll · fanciful
stranger
Person not yet known
preposterous · grotesque · kafkaesque · phantasmagoric · unearthly · otherworldly · fantastical · inexplicable · uncanny · hallucinatory
malfunctioning
Operating incorrectly or failing
broken · unreliable · haywire · wonky · erratic · temperamental · finicky · dysfunctional · janky · rickety
trickier
More difficult to handle
- thornierMore prickly or problematic
- knottierMore complex or intricate
- messierMore disordered or cluttered
complicated · problematic · troublesome · convoluted · perplexing · vexing · confounding · baffling · muddled · tangled
- screwing upFailing through carelessness
- screwing offIdling instead of working
- screwing aroundIdling unproductively, often playfully
- screwing overDeliberately causing harm through deceit
- screwing withDeliberately annoying or deceiving
- screwing the poochFailing spectacularly through carelessness