Definition

1. Noun:
   • A person who is insane or mentally deranged: "looney" refers to an individual whose mind is severely disordered, often implying irrational or unpredictable behavior.
   • A person who is foolishly eccentric or wildly irrational: The term can also describe someone whose actions or ideas are considered extremely strange, foolish, or out of touch with reality.

Usage Examples

• Noun:
  • The old mansion was said to be haunted by a looney who had lived there decades ago.
  • Don't listen to him; he's a complete looney with his conspiracy theories.

Advanced Usage

• "to be a looney": to be considered insane or wildly irrational.
  • After ranting about aliens for an hour, everyone thought he was a looney.

Variants and Related Words

• Loony (adj/noun): An alternative spelling with the same meaning.
  • That's a loony idea. (That is an insane idea.)
• Lunatic (noun): A more formal synonym for a mentally ill or wildly foolish person.
• Looney bin (noun, slang): A derogatory and informal term for a psychiatric hospital.

Synonyms

• Madman: A person who is insane.
• Maniac: A person exhibiting extreme symptoms of wild behavior, such as violence.
• Nutcase (slang): A crazy or eccentric person.

Idioms and Fixed Phrases

• Looney tunes: Derived from the cartoon series, used informally to describe something or someone as crazy or absurd.
  • This plan is completely looney tunes.

Noun

1. someone deranged and possibly dangerous