screwball

1. 1.

   foolish; totally unsound

   “a crazy scheme”

   “half-baked ideas”

   “a screwball proposal without a prayer of working”

   Synonymscrazyhalf-bakedsoftheaded

   Similarimpractical

   colloquialism

Other forms of screwball

plural

screwballs·

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 screwball

What does screwball mean?

screwball means "a whimsically eccentric person". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in screwball?

screwball has 2 syllables: screw-ball. The stress falls on "screw". In IPA it is /ˈskɹuˌbɔl/.

What is another word for screwball?

Close synonyms include crackpot, crank, nut, nut case, fruitcake. 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 screwball a common word?

screwball is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. 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 screwball?

24 words rhyme with screwball. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.