Synonyms for screwy

Grammar : Adj

Spell : skroo-ee

Phonetic Transcription : ˈskru i

Top 10 synonyms for screwy

Other synonyms for the word screwy

Définition of screwy

Origin : 1820, "tipsy, slightly drunk," from screw (n.) + -y (2.). Sense of "crazy, ridiculous" first recorded 1887. Related: Screwily; screwiness.

adj eccentric

Example sentences :

I had to move around into about sixteen screwy positions to do all the fixing.
Extract from : « The Trouble with Telstar » by John Berryman

They seemed to come in series of threes in this screwy place, he thought.
Extract from : « Castle of Terror » by E.J. Liston

For some screwy reason I hoped she had another place to hole up for the night.
Extract from : « Modus Vivendi » by Gordon Randall Garrett

My sponsor and I had some pretty good sessions about it, and some of the screwy results I wrote you begin to make sense.
Extract from : « On Handling the Data » by M. I. Mayfield

That'll make everyone skew all weird and screwy, and make everyone look guilty.
Extract from : « Little Brother » by Cory Doctorow

Maybe it's because at times (though certainly not—I hope—on as permanent a basis as Artie) I'm as screwy as he is.
Extract from : « Double or Nothing » by Jack Sharkey

Because every screwy thing that has happened since we came here a year ago must have an explanation.
Extract from : « The Minus Woman » by Russell Robert Winterbotham

This time they ain't none of them screwy Venusians to put the whammy on him, and he's doing okay.
Extract from : « Hoiman and the Solar Circuit » by Gordon Dewey

Something in us was different, unrelated; I don't doubt that Tweel thought me just as screwy as I thought him.
Extract from : « A Martian Odyssey » by Stanley Grauman Weinbaum

Then when the boys in Havana answered that screwy letter perhaps they'd all have something to go by.
Extract from : « The Five Arrows » by Allan Chase

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