Definition of SCREWY

screwy

Adjective Satellite

  • not behaving normally

Adj

  • Crazy; silly; ridiculous
  • Tipsy; slightly drunk.
  • Exacting; extortionate; close.
  • Worthless.

Adjective

  • Eccentric or slightly crazy; absurd.

Examples

  • That was a SCREWY play, but it somehow worked out for her in Scrabble.
  • That's a screwy idea; I am not going to fly all the way to Antarctica just to see a penguin!

Origin / Etymology

From screw + -y. 1820, original meaning “tipsy, slightly drunk”; meaning “crazy, ridiculous” first recorded 1887.

Synonyms

screw-loose, 5150, Adrian Quist, Brahms, Brahms and Liszt, MWI, Mozart and Liszt, Oliver, Oliver Twist, a sheet in the wind, a sheet in the wind's eye, adrip, aled up, all mops and brooms, apeshit, arseholed, bananas, barking, barking mad, barmy, bat-shit, batchy, batcrap, batpoop, bats, batshit, batty, bedrunken, befuddled, beliquored, besotted, besotten, bevvied, bibacious, bibulous, bingoed, binned, bladdered, blasted, blewed, blind, blind drunk, blitzed, blocked, blootered, blottoed, blue, bollocksed, bombed, bonkers, boozy, bosky, bottled, bread baskets, budgy, buggish, buggy, bughouse, bungalowed, bungfu, burlin', canned, clobbered, cocked, cockeyed, corned, cra-cra, cracked, crackers, crapulous, cray, cray-cray, crazed, crazy, crazy as a bedbug, crazy as a cootie, crazy as a cootie bug, crazy as a pet coon, crocked, cuckoo, cunted, cup-shot, cup-shotten, cut, daffy, daft, dead drunk, demented, deranged, destroyed, disguised, distraught, disturbed, doolally, dotty, drunk, drunk as a piper, drunked up, drunken, ebriated, ebriose, eccentric, elephant's, elephant's trunk, elevated, faced, fap, feeling no pain, fershnickered, flooey, floored, flush, flushed, flustered, fluted, fluthered, fou, four sheets in the wind, fresh, fried, frosted, fruit loops, fucked in the head, fucked up, fuckered up, fuckfaced, fuddled, full, fuzzy-headed, fuzzy-minded, gaga, gassed, gattered, gee-eyed, gesuip, ginned, gished, glorious, groggified, groggy, half cut, half lit, half polluted, half seas over, hammered, harebrained, hatstand, have drink taken, have the sun in one's eyes, hazed, high, high as a Georgia pine, high as a kite, hog-whimpering, honkers, hooched up, hooted, hoovered, hosed, how came you so, impaired, in liquor, in one's altitudes, in one's cups, in the bag, in the drink, inebriate, inebriated, inebrious, insane, insober, insobrietous, inter pocula, jaked, jarred, juiced, juiced up, kaylied, kisky, kooky, lamped, langered, langers, larruped, lash, lashed, lathered, legless, liquored up, liquory, lit, loaded, loco, loon, loony, loony tunes, looped, loopy, loose, lubed, lubed up, lubricated, lunatic, lushed, mad, mad with it, maggot, maggoted, mashed, maudlin, medicated, mental, mentally ill, meshigener, meshugge, messed up, monged, moonsick, mortal, mortalled, muddled, muggy, mullered, munted, muzzy, nappy, newted, nimptopsical, non compos mentis, nonsane, nucking futs, nut, nut job, nutballs, nuts, nutso, nutter, nutty, obfuscated, obliviated, off one's box, off one's head, off one's tits, off the beam, off the chain, oiled, oiled up, on the ran tan, ossified, out of it, out of one's box, out of one's face, out of one's head, out of sight, over the edge, overcome, overrefreshed, overtaken, paralytic, parlatic, pickled, pie-eyed, pixilated, plastered, ploughed, plowed, polluted, potshot, potted, potty, pounded, primed, psycho, psychoceramic, psychotic, puggled, quisby, raddled, rat-arsed, ratted, razzled, ripe, ripped, ripshit, rolling, rubbered, sauced, sauced up, scammered, schloshed, schnockered, screwed, screwy, scuttered, sewed up, shedded, shellacked, shicker, shickered, shitty, sicko, skunked, slammed, slarmied, slizzard, sloppy drunk, sloshed, smashed, snockered, snookered, snozzled, snuffy, soaken, sodden, sotted, sottish, souped-up, soused, sozzled, sozzly, spanceled, spannered, spiffed, splashed, spongy, sprung, squiffed, squirrelly, starkers, steamboats, stewed, stinking, stinko, stoated, stoned, stonkered, stotious, strut, swacked, tanked, tanked up, temulent, temulentive, three sheets in the wind, three sheets to the wind, throwed, tight, tight as a tick, tilted, tippled, tipsy, tired and emotional, toasted, tonto, top-heavy, top-heavy with drink, toping, trashed, tuned, twatfaced, twisted, unbalanced, unsane, wackadoodle, wastey, wazzed, wazzocked, weird, well-oiled, wellied, wet, whackjob, whacko, whacky, whittled, withered, wobbly, wode, woozy, worse for liquor, worse for wear, wrecked, yampy, zany, zoned, zonked, zooted, zorched, zotzed

Scrabble Score: 14

screwy: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Word
screwy: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
screwy: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 14

screwy: valid Words With Friends Word