dotty

1. 1.

   informal or slang terms for mentally irregular

   “it used to drive my husband balmy”

   Synonymsbalmybarmybatsbattybonkersbuggycrackedcrackersdaftfruityhaywirekookykookieloco

   Similarinsane
2. 2.

   intensely enthusiastic about or preoccupied with

   “crazy about cars and racing”

   “they are dotty about each other”

   “gaga over the rock group's new album”

   Synonymscrazywildgaga

   Similarenthusiastic

   colloquialism

Other forms of dotty

comparative or superlative

dottier

comparative or superlative

dottiest

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 dotty

What does dotty mean?

dotty means "informal or slang terms for mentally irregular". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in dotty?

dotty has 2 syllables: dot-ty. The stress falls on "dot". In IPA it is /ˈdɑti/.

What is another word for dotty?

Close synonyms include balmy, barmy, bats, batty, bonkers. 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 dotty a common word?

dotty 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.