daft

• POS: Adjective

OXFORD DICTIONARY

daft, adj. esp. Brit. colloq.
1 silly, foolish, crazy.
2 (foll. by about) fond of; infatuated with.

Etymology

ME daffte = OE ged{aelig}fte mild, meek, f. Gmc

THESAURUS

daft

abnormal, absurd, apish, asinine, batty, bedlamite, befooled, beguiled, bereft of reason, besotted, boneheaded, brainless, brainsick, buffoonish, cockamamie, cockeyed, crackbrained, cracked, crazed, crazy, crazy about, credulous, cretinous, daffy, dazed, deluded, demented, deprived of reason, deranged, dim-witted, disoriented, distraught, dizzy, dopey, doting, dumb, fat-witted, fatuitous, fatuous, flaky, flighty, fond, fool, foolheaded, foolish, fuddled, futile, gaga, giddy, goofy, gulled, hallucinated, idiotic, imbecile, imbecilic, inane, inept, infatuated, infatuated with, insane, irrational, kooky, loco, loony, lunatic, mad, mad about, maddened, manic, maudlin, mazed, mental, mentally deficient, meshuggah, moon-struck, moronic, non compos, non compos mentis, nonsensical, not all there, not right, nuts about, nutty, obtuse, odd, of unsound mind, off, psycho, queer, reasonless, ridiculous, sappy, screwy, senseless, sentimental, sick, silly, slow-witted, stark-mad, stark-staring mad, strange, stupid, sweet on, tetched, thoughtless, touched, unbalanced, unhinged, unsane, unsettled, unsound, wacky, wandering, weak-minded, wet, witless

ROGET THESAURUS

daft

Insanity

N insanity, disordered reason, disordered intellect, diseased mind, unsound mind, abnormal mind, derangement, unsoundness, psychosis, neurosis, cognitive disorder, affective disorder, insanity, lunacy, madness, mania, rabies, furor, mental alienation, aberration, paranoia, schizophrenia, dementation, dementia, demency, phrenitis, phrensy, frenzy, raving, incoherence, wandering, delirium, calenture of the brain, delusion, hallucination, lycanthropy, brain storm, vertigo, dizziness, swimming, sunstroke, coup de soleil, siriasis, fanaticism, infatuation, craze, oddity, eccentricity, twist, monomania (caprice), kleptodipsomania, hypochondriasis, melancholia, depression, clinical depression, severe depression, hysteria, amentia, screw loose, tile loose, slate loose, bee in one's bonnet, rats in the upper story, dotage, insane, mad, lunatic, loony, crazy, crazed, aliene, non compos mentis, not right, cracked, touched, bereft of reason, all possessed, unhinged, unsettled in one's mind, insensate, reasonless, beside oneself, demented, daft, phrenzied, frenzied, frenetic, possessed, possessed with a devil, deranged, maddened, moonstruck, shatterpated, mad-brained, scatter brained, shatter brained, crackbrained, touched, tetched, off one's head, maniacal, delirious, lightheaded, incoherent, rambling, doting, wandering, frantic, raving, stark staring mad, stark raving mad, wild-eyed, berserk, delusional, hallucinatory, corybantic, dithyrambic, rabid, giddy, vertiginous, wild, haggard, mazed, flighty, distracted, distraught, depressed, agitated, hyped up, bewildered, mad as a March hare, mad as a hatter, of unsound mind, touched in one's head, wrong in one's head, not right in one's head, not in one's right mind, not right in one's wits, upper story, out of one's mind, out of one's wits, out of one's skull, far gone, out of one's senses, out of one's wits, not in one's right mind, fanatical, infatuated, odd, eccentric, hypped, hyppish, spaced out, imbecile, silly, like one possessed, the mind having lost its balance, the reason under a cloud, tet exaltee, tet montee, ira furor brevis est, omnes stultos insanire.