variants or less commonly kookie
kookier; kookiest
: having the characteristics of a kook : offbeat, eccentric
kookiness noun

Examples of kooky in a Sentence

I'm not sure that someone with such kooky ideas on biology should be teaching the subject to high schoolers. if you think that drugs aren't bad for you, you haven't met that guy's kooky friends
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But this comedy is infused with such kooky energy that these problems don’t even really register among all the gags. Gayle Sequeira, Vulture, 10 Oct. 2024 In her portrayal of kooky masseuse-musician Phoebe Buffay, Lisa Kudrow was clearly paying homage to Garr. Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 30 Oct. 2024 In a bloody good mix of horror comedy and murder mystery, Sam Richardson plays a naive but good-hearted forest ranger new to a small Vermont town out to catch a killer (who may or may not be a werewolf) among the various kooky residents. 55. Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 25 Oct. 2024 With stacks of set pieces ranging from kooky to crazy, this doesn’t hold back with the Venomenal action. Michaela Zee, Variety, 22 Oct. 2024 See all Example Sentences for kooky 

Word History

First Known Use

1957, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of kooky was in 1957

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“Kooky.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/kooky. Accessed 30 Nov. 2024.

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