batty

Other forms of batty

comparative or superlative

battier

comparative or superlative

battiest

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about batty

What does batty mean?

batty means "informal or slang terms for mentally irregular".

How many syllables are in batty?

batty has 2 syllables: bat-ty. The stress falls on "bat". In IPA it is /ˈbæti/.

What is another word for batty?

Close synonyms include balmy, barmy, bats, bonkers, buggy. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is batty a common word?

batty is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.