cockeyed
from
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
cockeyed
adj 1: turned or twisted toward one side; "a...youth with a
gorgeous red necktie all awry"- G.K.Chesterton; "his wig
was, as the British say, skew-whiff" [syn: {askew},
{awry(p)}, {cockeyed}, {lopsided}, {wonky}, {skew-whiff}]
2: incongruous;inviting ridicule; "the absurd excuse that the
dog ate his homework"; "that's a cockeyed idea"; "ask a
nonsensical question and get a nonsensical answer"; "a
contribution so small as to be laughable"; "it is ludicrous
to call a cottage a mansion"; "a preposterous attempt to turn
back the pages of history"; "her conceited assumption of
universal interest in her rather dull children was
ridiculous" [syn: {absurd}, {cockeyed}, {derisory},
{idiotic}, {laughable}, {ludicrous}, {nonsensical},
{preposterous}, {ridiculous}]
3: very drunk [syn: {besotted}, {blind drunk}, {blotto},
{crocked}, {cockeyed}, {fuddled}, {loaded}, {pie-eyed},
{pissed}, {pixilated}, {plastered}, {slopped}, {sloshed},
{smashed}, {soaked}, {soused}, {sozzled}, {squiffy}, {stiff},
{tight}, {wet}]
from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
177 Moby Thesaurus words for "cockeyed":
afflicted, agee, agee-jawed, amiss, anamorphous, apish, asinine,
askance, askant, askew, askewgee, asquint, asymmetric, awry, batty,
befooled, beguiled, bent, besotted, boiled, bombed, boozy, bowed,
brainless, buffoonish, bug-eyed, cam, canned, catawampous,
catawamptious, cock-a-hoop, cockeyed drunk, contorted, convulsed,
crazy, credulous, crocked, crocko, crooked, crookedly, cross-eyed,
crumpled, crunched, daffy, daft, dazed, deranged, deviative,
disarranged, discomfited, discomposed, disconcerted, disguised,
dislocated, disordered, disorderly, disorganized, distorted,
disturbed, dizzy, doting, drunk, dumb, elevated, fatuitous,
fatuous, flaky, fond, fool, foolheaded, foolish, fried, fuddled,
futile, gaga, glare-eyed, goofy, gulled, half-seas over, haywire,
high, idiotic, illuminated, imbecile, in disorder, inane,
inebriated, inept, infatuated, insane, irregular, kooky,
labyrinthine, lit, lit up, loaded, loony, lopsided, lubricated,
lushy, mad, maudlin, misplaced, monocular, moon-eyed, moronic,
muddled, muzzy, nonsymmetric, nutty, oiled, on the fritz, one-eyed,
one-sided, organized, out of gear, out of joint, out of kelter,
out of kilter, out of order, out of place, out of tune,
out of whack, perturbed, pickled, pie-eyed, pissed, pissy-eyed,
pixilated, plastered, polluted, popeyed, potted, raddled, roily,
sappy, saucer-eyed, screwy, senseless, sentimental, shellacked,
shuffled, silly, skew, skew-jawed, skewed, skunk-drunk,
slaunchways, smashed, soaked, soused, sprung, squiffy, squinting,
stewed, stinko, stupid, swacked, swivel-eyed, tanked, thoughtless,
tight, tortuous, turbid, turbulent, twisted, unsettled,
unsymmetric, upset, wacky, walleyed, wamper-jawed, warped, wet,
witless, wry, yaw-ways
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