Synonyms of the word haywire


HAYWIREAMISS - AWRY - BALMY - BARMY - BATS - BATTY - BONKERS - BUGGY - CRACKED - CRACKERS - DAFT - DOTTY - FRUITY - INSANE - KOOKIE - KOOKY - LOCO - LOONY - LOOPY - MALFUNCTIONING - NONFUNCTIONAL - NUTS - NUTTY - WACKY - WHACKY - WIRE - WRONG

haywire

  • n. Wire used to bind bales of hay.
  • adj. Roughly-made, unsophisticated, decrepit (from the use of haywire for temporary repairs).
  • adj. Behaving erratically or uncontrollably, especially of a machine or mechanical process; usually used with…

amiss

  • adj. Wrong; faulty; out of order; improper or otherwise incorrect.
  • adv. Mistakenly, wrongly.
  • n. (obsolete) Fault; wrong; an evil act, a bad deed.

awry

  • adv. Obliquely, crookedly; askew.
  • adv. Perversely, improperly.
  • adj. Turned or twisted toward one side; crooked, distorted, out of place.
  • adj. Wrong or distorted; perverse, amiss.

balmy

  • adj. Producing balm.
  • adj. Soothing or fragrant.
  • adj. Mild and pleasant.
  • adj. (informal) Foolish; slightly crazy or mad; eccentric.

barmy

  • adj. (rare) containing barm, i.e. froth from fermented yeast.
  • adj. (chiefly Britain) odd, strange.

bats

  • n. plural of bat.
  • v. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of bat.
  • adj. (informal) Mad, insane.

batty

  • adj. (slang) Mad, crazy, silly.
  • adj. (obsolete) Belonging to, or resembling, a bat (mammal).
  • n. (West Indian slang) The buttocks or anus.
  • n. (Jamaica, Britain, derogatory) A homosexual man.

bonkers

  • adj. (informal) Mad; crazy.
  • n. plural of bonker.

buggy

  • n. A small horse-drawn cart.
  • n. A small motor vehicle, such as a dune buggy.
  • n. (Britain) A pushchair; a stroller.
  • n. (Canada, Southern US) A shopping cart or trolley.
  • adj. Infested with insects.
  • adj. (computing) Containing programming errors.
  • adj. Resembling an insect.

cracked

  • adj. Broken so that cracks appear on, or under, the surface.
  • adj. Broken into coarse pieces.
  • adj. (of a voice) Harsh or dissonant.
  • adj. (slang) Crazy; crackpot.
  • v. simple past tense and past participle of crack.

crackers

  • n. plural of cracker.
  • n. (South Africa, only plural) A kind of noisy leather pants or trousers.
  • adj. (Britain colloquial) Crazy, insane.
  • v. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of cracker.

daft

  • adj. insane, mad.
  • adj. silly.
  • adj. stupid.

dotty

  • adj. Having many dots.
  • adj. (Britain) Mildly insane or excessively preoccupied; often, senile.
  • adj. (Britain, dated) Having an unsteady gait.

fruity

  • adj. containing fruit or fruit flavoring.
  • adj. similar to fruit or tasting of fruit.
  • adj. (informal) mad, crazy.
  • adj. (informal, derogatory, LGBT, of a male) effeminate or otherwise flamboyant or homosexual.
  • adj. (Britain, informal) sexually suggestive.

insane

  • adj. Exhibiting unsoundness or disorder of mind; not sane; mad; deranged in mind; delirious; distracted.
  • adj. Used by, or appropriated to, insane persons.
  • adj. Causing insanity or madness.
  • adj. Characterized by insanity or the utmost folly; ridiculous; unpractical.

kookie

  • adj. Alternative form of kooky.

kooky

  • adj. (slang) Eccentric, strange, or foolish; crazy or insane; kookish.
  • adj. (surfing) Behaving like a kook (a person with poor style or skill); kook-like.

loco

  • adv. (music) A direction in written or printed music to return to the proper pitch after having played an octave…
  • adj. (colloquial) crazy.
  • adj. (western US) intoxicated by eating locoweed.
  • n. Certain species of Astragalus or Oxytropis, capable of causing locoism.
  • v. (transitive) To poison with the loco plant; to affect with locoism.
  • v. (transitive, colloquial, by extension) To render insane.
  • n. (rail transport, informal, chiefly India and surrounding South Asian countries) a locomotive.

loony

  • adj. (of a person) Insane.
  • adj. (of a thing) Very silly, absurd.
  • n. An insane or very foolish person.

loopy

  • adj. Having loops.
  • adj. (slang) Idiotic, crazy or drunk.

malfunctioning

  • v. present participle of malfunction.
  • n. A malfunction.

nonfunctional

  • adj. Not functional; useless; broken.

nuts

  • n. plural of nut.
  • n. (vulgar, slang) Testicles.
  • n. (poker) An unbeatable hand; the best poker hand available.
  • adj. (colloquial) Insane, mad.
  • adj. (colloquial, figuratively) Crazy, mad; unusually pleased or, alternatively, angered.
  • interj. Indicates annoyance, anger, or disappointment.
  • interj. Signifies rejection of a proposal or idea, as in forget it, no way, or nothing doing; often followed by…
  • v. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of nut.

nutty

  • adj. Containing nuts.
  • adj. Reminiscent of nuts.
  • adj. Barmy, crazy, mad.

wacky

  • adj. zany; eccentric.
  • n. Alternative form of wacke.

whacky

  • adj. Alternative spelling of wacky.

wire

  • n. (uncountable) Metal formed into a thin, even thread, now usually by being drawn through a hole in a steel…
  • n. A piece of such material; a thread or slender rod of metal, a cable.
  • n. A metal conductor that carries electricity.
  • n. A fence made of usually barbed wire.
  • n. (sports) A finish line of a racetrack.
  • n. (informal) A telecommunication wire or cable.
  • n. (by extension) An electric telegraph; a telegram.
  • n. (slang) A hidden listening device on the person of an undercover operative for the purposes of obtaining…
  • n. (informal) A deadline or critical endpoint.
  • n. (billiards) A wire strung with beads and hung horizontally above or near the table which is used to keep…
  • n. (usually in the plural) Any of the system of wires used to operate the puppets in a puppet show; hence,…
  • n. (archaic, thieves' slang) A pickpocket who targets women.
  • n. (Scotland) A knitting needle.
  • v. To fasten with wire, especially with reference to wine bottles, corks, or fencing.
  • v. To string on a wire.
  • v. To equip with wires for use with electricity.
  • v. To add something into an electrical system by means of wiring; to incorporate or include something.
  • v. (informal) To send a message or a money value to another person through a telecommunications system, formerly…
  • v. To make someone tense or psyched up.
  • v. (slang) To install eavesdropping equipment.
  • v. To snare by means of a wire or wires.
  • v. (transitive, croquet) To place (a ball) so that the wire of a wicket prevents a successful shot.

wrong

  • adj. Incorrect or untrue.
  • adj. Asserting something incorrect or untrue.
  • adj. Immoral, not good, bad.
  • adj. Improper; unfit; unsuitable.
  • adj. Not working; out of order.
  • adj. Designed to be worn or placed inward; as, the wrong side of a garment or of a piece of cloth.
  • adj. (obsolete) Twisted; wry.
  • adv. (informal) In a way that isn't right; incorrectly, wrongly.
  • n. Something that is immoral or not good.
  • n. An instance of wronging someone (sometimes with possessive to indicate the wrongdoer).
  • n. The incorrect or unjust position or opinion.
  • n. The opposite of right; the concept of badness.
  • v. To treat unjustly; to injure or harm.
  • v. To deprive of some right, or to withhold some act of justice.
  • v. To slander; to impute evil to unjustly.

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