Screwball (Adjective)

Meaning

Foolish; totally unsound; "a crazy scheme"; "half-baked ideas"; "a screwball proposal without a prayer of working".

Classification

All adjective clusters.

Usages

• Colloquialism

Examples

• The politician's screwball plan to build a tunnel to the moon was met with widespread ridicule.
• Her screwball idea of starting a business selling pet rocks was surprisingly successful.
• The company's screwball decision to invest in a new product line without market research was a disaster.
• The screwball scheme to rob a bank using only a toy gun and a pair of water balloons was doomed from the start.
• The professor's screwball theory that the Earth was actually a giant spaceship was dismissed by his colleagues as absurd.

Synonyms

• Crazy
• Half-baked
• Softheaded

Related Words

• Screwball (noun)