wackadoo

Off their rocker

Wackadoo describes someone or something crazy, eccentric, or absurdly off-kilter: My uncle's a total wackadoo—he thinks the government is reading his dreams.

As a noun, it refers to such a person directly: Some wackadoo was shouting conspiracy theories on the corner.

The word is playful rather than clinical, suggesting harmless oddity more than genuine mental illness.

zany

madcap

Recklessly impulsive person

buffoonery · antics · screwball · harebrained · cockamamie · loopy · goofy · silly · nutty · daffy

eccentric

oddball

Eccentric individual

  • crackpotEccentric with strange ideas
  • kookEccentric or strange person
  • weirdoPeculiar person, dismissively

nutcase · fruitcake · screwball · crank · maverick · nonconformist · misfit · character · original · individualist

bizarre

outlandish

Strikingly weird or foreign-seeming

surreal · weird · strange · peculiar · freakish · grotesque · fantastical · nonsensical · inexplicable · uncanny

Opposites
mental stability/sanity

wackadoosane

Mentally healthy, clearheaded

stable · balanced · well-adjusted · lucid · grounded

conventionality/normalcy

wackadoonormal

Conforming to standard

ordinary · conventional · mainstream · straight-laced · typical

sensibleness/reasonableness

wackadoosensible

Showing good judgment

reasonable · level-headed · pragmatic · practical · down-to-earth

Family

wacky, whack, whacked, whacking, whacks, whacky, wackiness, whacko, wacked

Familiarity
Top 500,000
Profile
Abstract · Everyday, not technical · Rated G