dotty

• POS: Adjective, Noun
• HYPHEN: Dot=ty

OXFORD DICTIONARY

dotty, adj. (dottier, dottiest) colloq.
1 feeble-minded, silly.
2 eccentric.
3 absurd.
4 (foll. by about, on) infatuated with; obsessed by.

Derivative

dottily adv. dottiness n.

Etymology

earlier = unsteady: f. DOT(1) + -Y(1)

THESAURUS

dotty

abnormal, absurd, anomalous, balmy, bananas, barmy, bats, batty, beany, besotted, bespangled, blotched, blotchy, bonkers, buggy, bughouse, bugs, crackers, crank, crankish, cranky, crazy, crotchety, cuckoo, daffy, deviant, deviative, different, dippy, divergent, dotted, eccentric, enamored, erratic, exceptional, fantastic, fey, flaky, flea-bitten, flecked, fleckered, flipped, freaked-out, freakish, frecked, freckled, freckly, fruitcakey, fruity, funny, gaga, goofy, haywire, idiocratic, idiosyncratic, infatuate, insane, irregular, just plain nuts, kinky, kooky, loony, loopy, macular, maculate, maculated, maggoty, nuts, nutty, odd, oddball, off the hinges, off the track, off the wall, patchy, peculiar, peppered, pocked, pockmarked, pocky, pointille, pointillistic, polka-dot, potty, preposterous, punctated, queer, quirky, round the bend, screwball, screwballs, screwy, singular, slaphappy, spangled, specked, speckled, speckledy, speckly, splotched, splotchy, spotted, spotty, sprinkled, stippled, strange, studded, twisted, unconventional, unnatural, wacky, whimsical