zany sentence examples

• Wednesday 28th december 2005 inspired by others, you might like to try being a little zany yourself today.
• Zany antics are helping a very serious campaign against cancer.
• Heather coleman in exeter has a wonderfully zany site but ( but beware the brain behind the fluff ).
• Seeing a group of hamsters dressed up as zebras, frogs and lions is quite amusing and a bit zany.
• Zany isbook collects some of his zaniest earliest adventures as they were first published in the 1940s.
• Zany humor.
• Sue has a slightly zany, self-effacing, bubbly personality, which opposes her meticulous, time-consuming love for something bright and beautiful.
• Zany comedy, dark drama, adverts etc?
• Even more, if it brings you business, you'd be quite zany to forget to buy the upgraded version next year!
• Zany characters can grab the attention of media people.
• Far from being a father figure, they looked on him as an endearing and rather zany elder brother.
• Zany fun & lots of joining in for 4yrs upwards.
• What, for example, is particularly zany, offbeat or fanciful about 5.30?
• A television team was also in attendance, seeking out suitably zany people with which to film interviews.

 

ZANY (noun)
  The noun ZANY has 2 senses:

1. a buffoon in one of the old comedies; imitates others for ludicrous effect
2. a man who is a stupid incompetent fool

  Familiarity information: ZANY used as a noun is rare.

ZANY (adjective)
  The adjective ZANY has 2 senses:

1. ludicrous, foolish
2. like a clown

  Familiarity information: ZANY used as an adjective is rare.

ZANY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A buffoon in one of the old comedies; imitates others for ludicrous effect

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("zany" is a kind of...):

buffoon; clown; merry andrew (a person who amuses others by ridiculous behavior)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A man who is a stupid incompetent fool

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

bozo; cuckoo; fathead; goof; goofball; jackass; twat; zany; goose

Hypernyms ("zany" is a kind of...):

fool; muggins; sap; saphead; tomfool (a person who lacks good judgment)

ZANY (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Ludicrous, foolish

Synonyms:

whacky; wacky; silly; sappy; goofy; cockamamy; cockamamie; zany

Context examples:

gave me a cockamamie reason for not going / wore a goofy hat / a silly idea / some wacky plan for selling more books

Similar:

foolish (devoid of good sense or judgment)

Domain usage:

colloquialism (a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Like a clown

Synonyms:

clownlike; clownish; buffoonish; zany

Context examples:

a buffoonish walk / a clownish face / a zany sense of humor

Similar:

humorous; humourous (full of or characterized by humor)