loony

Other forms of loony

plural

loonies·

comparative or superlative

loonier

comparative or superlative

looniest

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 loony

What does loony mean?

loony means "someone deranged and possibly dangerous". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in loony?

loony has 2 syllables: loo-ny. The stress falls on "loo". In IPA it is /ˈluni/.

What is another word for loony?

Close synonyms include crazy, looney, nutcase, weirdo, balmy. 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 loony a common word?

loony 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.

What rhymes with loony?

1 word rhymes with loony. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.