What is another word for daft?

Pronunciation: [dˈaft] (IPA)

Daft is a term that is often used to describe someone who is foolish, silly or unreasonable. However, there are many other words that can be used as synonyms for daft that can help you better describe the type of behaviour or action you are witnessing. Some great synonyms for daft are foolish, absurd, ludicrous, senseless, irrational, and nonsensical. Other words that can be used include silly, ridiculous, crazy, and bizarre. By incorporating these synonyms into your writing or speech, you can add more colour and depth to your descriptions, ultimately helping you better communicate your ideas or opinions.

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What are the opposite words for daft?

Daft, a word that means silly or foolish, has several antonyms that imply intelligence, soundness of judgment, and rationality. One of the most common antonyms for daft is "sensible," which connotes the opposite of foolishness as someone who behaves in a judicious, wise, and thoughtful manner. Another word of opposition could be "logical," which refers to a way of thinking or a decision-making process that is based on reason and valid arguments. Additionally, if you're looking for a term that denotes practicality and levelheadedness, you could use "prudent," "sane," "wise," or "reasonable." All these antonyms convey characteristics that are diametrically opposed to the meaning of daft.

Usage examples for Daft

Because it wasn't worth while to sing a pretty tune to a deaf man; you were daft then over your Fanny, you wouldn't have listened to me.
"Monsieur Cherami"
Charles Paul de Kock
He had too keen a sense of the ridiculous to go clean daft on the subject.
"Eugene Field, A Study In Heredity And Contradictions"
Slason Thompson
They are clean daft over the discovery of that gold.
"If Any Man Sin"
H. A. Cody

Famous quotes with Daft

  • I don't want to be daft and say I had some spiritual awakening or something, but I really did come of age in Los Angeles, where we recorded the album. I had my own little house and my own little circle and I really got to feel how the city ticks.
    Melanie Chisholm
  • Having been an actor and a writer for so long - 20 years or so - I felt that it would be daft to go to one's grave without having directed. It's a natural extension of writing and acting, and so I knew it would happen one day.
    Stephen Fry
  • There is a legend. And to protest is daft.
    Peter O'Toole
  • I wind up chatting to Melanie Phillips. Melanie is a columnist for the Daily Mail and is mostly known for her knee-jerk, right-wing, hang-em-high vitriol. In person, inconveniently, she is beautiful. Deep brown, soulful eyes, elegant features and a truthful, caring sincerity in her tone. It is surprising and bizarre, then, to see her contort on air into a taut, jabbing Gollum figure, untutored index finger fucking the audience in the face when they pipe up about Syria or whatever. Oddly, I still like her, regarding her opinions as an arbitrary appurtenance that she pops on in public, like a daft hat that says "Immigrants Out" on the brim. When the audience – who, incidentally, make all the best points – boo her, I think it a shame. The wall of condemnation is an audible confirmation that the world is a fearful and unloving place. Like most of us, Melanie just needs a cuddle.
    Russell Brand
  • That sovereign of insufferables, Oscar Wilde has ensued with his opulence of twaddle and his penury of sense. He has mounted his hind legs and blown crass vapidities through the bowel of his neck, to the capital edification of circumjacent fools and foolesses, fooling with their foolers. He has tossed off the top of his head and uttered himself in copious overflows of ghastly bosh. The ineffable dunce has nothing to say and says it—says it with a liberal embellishment of bad delivery, embroidering it with reasonless vulgarities of attitude, gesture and attire. There never was an impostor so hateful, a blockhead so stupid, a crank so variously and offensively daft. Therefore is the she fool enamored of the feel of his tongue in her ear to tickle her understanding. The limpid and spiritless vacuity of this intellectual jellyfish is in ludicrous contrast with the rude but robust mental activities that he came to quicken and inspire. Not only has he no thoughts, but no thinker. His lecture is mere verbal ditch-water—meaningless, trite and without coherence. It lacks even the nastiness that exalts and refines his verse. Moreover, it is obviously his own; he had not even the energy and independence to steal it. And so, with a knowledge that would equip and idiot to dispute with a cast-iron dog, and eloquence to qualify him for the duties of a caller on a hog-ranch, and an imagination adequate to the conception of a tom-cat, when fired by contemplation of a fiddle-string, this consummate and star-like youth, missing everywhere his heaven-appointed functions and offices, wanders about, posing as a statue of himself, and, like the sun-smitten image of Memnon, emitting meaningless murmurs in the blaze of women’s eyes. He makes me tired. And this gawky gowk has the divine effrontery to link his name with those of Swinburne, Rossetti and Morris—this dunghill he-hen would fly with eagles. He dares to set his tongue to the honored name of Keats. He is the leader, quoth’a, of a renaissance in art, this man who cannot draw—of a revival of letters, this man who cannot write! This little and looniest of a brotherhood of simpletons, whom the wicked wits of London, haling him dazed from his obscurity, have crowned and crucified as King of the Cranks, has accepted the distinction in stupid good faith and our foolish people take him at his word. Mr. Wilde is pinnacled upon a dazzling eminence but the earth still trembles to the dull thunder of the kicks that set him up.
    Oscar Wilde

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