daft
Adjective Satellite
- informal or slang terms for mentally irregular
Adj
- Foolish, silly, stupid.
- Crazy, insane, mad.
- Gentle, meek, mild.
Adjective
- Silly, foolish, or insane.
Examples
- a daft idea
- It would be daft to ignore the double-letter score available for this tile.
Origin / Etymology
From Middle English dafte, defte (“gentle; having good manners; humble, modest; awkward; dull; boorish”), from Old English dæfte (“accommodating; gentle, meek, mild”), from Proto-West Germanic *daftī (“fitting, suitable”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *dʰh₂ebʰ- (“fitting; to fit together”). Related to Old English dafnian, dafenian (“to be fitting, appropriate, or becoming”), Russian до́брый (dóbryj, “good”).
Compare silly which originally meant “blessed; good, innocent; pitiful; weak”, but now means “laughable or amusing through foolishness or a foolish appearance; mentally simple, foolish”.
Unrelated to, though perhaps influenced by, daff (“fool (n.); to be foolish (v.)”) (past form daffed).
Synonyms
around the bend, balmy, barmy, bats, batty, bonkers, buggy, cracked, crackers, dotty, fruity, haywire, kookie, kooky, loco, loony, loopy, nuts, nutty, round the bend, wacky, whacky, 5150, apeshit, asinine, bananas, barking, barking mad, bat-shit, batchy, batcrap, batpoop, batshit, bedaft, bread baskets, buggish, bughouse, cra-cra, crackpot, cray, cray-cray, crazed, crazy, crazy as a bedbug, crazy as a cootie, crazy as a cootie bug, crazy as a pet coon, cuckoo, daffy, daft, demented, dense, deranged, derpy, dim-headed, dim-witted, distraught, disturbed, doolally, dopey, dull-headed, dull-witted, dumb, duncical, eccentric, fatuous, fruit loops, fucked in the head, fucked up, fuzzy-headed, fuzzy-minded, gaga, gauvison, goofy, harebrained, hatstand, idiotic, idle, insane, insipient, loon, loony tunes, lunatic, mad, mental, mentally ill, meshigener, meshugge, mookish, moonsick, naive, non compos mentis, nonsane, nucking futs, nut, nut job, nutballs, nutso, nutter, off the beam, off the chain, over the edge, potty, psycho, psychoceramic, psychotic, ripshit, screwy, sicko, silly, simple, slight, slow-witted, soft in the head, softheaded, sottish, squirrelly, starkers, stupid, thick, tonto, unbalanced, unsage, unsane, unwise, wackadoodle, weird, whackjob, whacko, wode, wool-headed, woolly-headed, woolly-minded, yampy, zany
Scrabble Score: 8
daft: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Worddaft: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
daft: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary