Word Meanings - DAFT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Stupid; folish; idiotic; also, delirious; insance; as, he has gone daft. Let us think no more of this daft business Sir W. Scott. 2. Gay; playful; frolicsome. Jamieson.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of DAFT)

• Crazy
• Idiotic
• broken-down
• mad
• crazed
• crack-brained
• lunatic
• demented
• daft
• insane
• aberrant

Related words: (words related to DAFT)

• CRACK-BRAINED
  Having an impaired intellect; whimsical; crazy. Pope.
• DEMENTED
  Insane; mad; of unsound mind. -- De*ment"ed*ness, n.
• CRAZE-MILL; CRAZING-MILL
  A mill for grinding tin ore.
• IDIOTICON
  A dictionary of a peculiar dialect, or of the words and phrases peculiar to one part of a country; a glossary.
• INSANENESS
  Insanity; madness.
• INSANE
  1. Exhibiting unsoundness or disorded of mind; not sane; mad; deranged in mind; delirious; distracted. See Insanity, 2. 2. Used by, or appropriated to, insane persons; as, an insane hospital. 3. Causing insanity or madness. Or have we eaten on
• CRAZINESS
  1. The state of being broken down or weakened; as, the craziness of a ship, or of the limbs. 2. The state of being broken in mind; imbecility or weakness of intellect; derangement.
• DEMENTATE
  Deprived of reason. Arise, thou dementate sinner! Hammond.
• ABERRANT
  Deviating from the ordinary or natural type; exceptional; abnormal. The more aberrant any form is, the greater must have been the number of connecting forms which, on my theory, have been exterminated. Darwin. (more info) 1. Wandering; straying
• CRAZILY
  In a crazy manner.
• DEMENTIA
  Insanity; madness; esp. that form which consists in weakness or total loss of thought and reason; mental imbecility; idiocy.
• LUNATIC
  1. Affected by lunacy; insane; mad. Lord, have mercy on my son; for he is lunatic. Wyclif (Matt. xvii.
• IDIOTIC; IDIOTICAL
  1. Common; simple. Blackwall. 2. Pertaining to, or like, an idiot; characterized by idiocy; foolish; fatuous; as, an idiotic person, speech, laugh, or action.
• DEMENTATION
  The act of depriving of reason; madness. Whitlock.
• IDIOTICALLY
  In a idiotic manner.
• INSANELY
  Without reason; madly; foolishly.
• CRAZE
  cf. Sw. krasa to crackle, sl, to break to pieces, F. to crush, fr. 1. To break into pieces; to crush; to grind to powder. See Crase. God, looking forth, will trouble all his host, And craze their chariot wheels. Milton. 2. To weaken; to impair;
• CRAZY
  1. Characterized by weakness or feeblness; decrepit; broken; falling to decay; shaky; unsafe. Piles of mean andcrazy houses. Macualay. One of great riches, but a crazy constitution. Addison. They . . . got a crazy boat to carry them to the island.
• DEMENT
  To deprive of reason; to make mad. Bale.
• CRAZEDNESS
  A broken state; decrepitude; an impaired state of the intellect.
• DECIDEMENT
  Means of forming a decision. Beau. & Fl.
• DEGRADEMENT
  Deprivation of rank or office; degradation. Milton.
• ACRASE; ACRAZE
  1. To craze. Grafton. 2. To impair; to destroy. Hacket.
• INCOMMODEMENT
  The act of incommoded. Cheyne.
• ABODEMENT
  A foreboding; an omen. "Abodements must not now affright us." Shak.
• FOREBODEMENT
  The act of foreboding; the thing foreboded.
• BODEMENT
  An omen; a prognostic. This foolish, dreaming, superstitious girl Makes all these bodements. Shak.