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zany

adjective as in crazy, funny

noun as in person who is wildly funny

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After a zany sequence, when Trevon Diggs scored a touchdown off an interception and then Mac Jones tossed a 75-yard touchdown pass in response, the Cowboys drove into New England territory needing a field goal to force overtime.

Stretch your legs at the Big Badlands Overlook and the Saddle Pass Trailhead before grabbing lunch at Wall Drug, a zany roadside attraction that’s been a piece of South Dakota history for 90 years.

In recent years, scientists studying the effect of light on brain function have confirmed some of Cook’s zanier intuitions.

From Time

In what may be its zaniest gambit yet, IKEA has launched an audiobook.

From Quartz

With US regulatory boards making it easier for new products to reach the market during the coronavirus emergency, a slew of solutions—from zany to ingenious—have become available.

From Quartz

A remembrance of the zany, ad-libbing actor who made us laugh and cry.

The proliferation of zany burger toppings came next as an inevitable by-product of the high-end burger fad.

It was the zany TV interview he conducted with Cleveland ABC affiliate WEWS-TV that made him an instant viral celebrity.

Look at her zany appearance with Dave Letterman about tweeting on Ambien for proof of that.

Aside from the zany plot, the film stretches the bounds of realism thanks to its bloody zombie kills.

Y was a Youth, that did not love school; Z was a Zany, a poor harmless fool.

He knew that so long as he obeyed orders he would be unharmed, and he would have been a zany had he hesitated to do so.

The youth never doubted that he would carry out this threat, and he would have been a zany to draw the explosion of wrath.

Oh, you selfish young zany of a man, after all you have said to her, won't you make it up and let me return to my coffee?

The alabaster image of the Blessed Virgin kept turning to a paper thing, kept nodding at him like a zany.

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On this page you'll find 52 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to zany, such as: campy, comical, eccentric, goofy, kooky, and loony.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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