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Another word for loony

or looney also luny adjective

(Informal)
So senseless as to be laughable:
absurd, foolish, harebrained, idiotic, imbecilic, insane, lunatic, mad, moronic, nonsensical, preposterous, silly, softheaded, tomfool, unearthly, zany. (Informal) cockeyed, crazy, loopy. (Slang) balmy², dippy, dopey, jerky, sappy, wacky. See ability, knowledge
(Informal)
Afflicted with or exhibiting irrationality and mental unsoundness:
brainsick, crazy, daft, demented, disordered, distraught, dotty, insane, lunatic, mad, maniac, maniacal, mentally ill, moonstruck, off, touched, unbalanced, unsound, wrong. (Informal) bonkers, cracked, daffy, gaga. (Slang) bananas, batty, buggy, cuckoo, fruity, loco, nuts, nutty, screwy, wacky. (Chiefly British) crackers. (Law) non compos mentis. Idioms: around the bend, crazy as a loon, mad as a hatter, not all there, nutty as a fruitcake, off (or out of) one's head, off one's rocker, of unsound mind, out of one's mind, sick in the head, stark raving mad. See sane

noun

(Informal)

A person regarded as strange, eccentric, or crazy:

crackpot, crazy, eccentric, lunatic. (Informal) crank, loon. (Slang) cuckoo, ding-a-ling, dingbat, kook, nut, screwball, weirdie, weirdo. See wise

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These areas generally include gentler rides and are themed with famous cartoons and their characters, such as Loony Tunes characters with the Six Flags theme parks and Disney characters with Disney World.
I walked into a room with men and women hugging and laughing and I thought I found the loony bin.
His name is Frank Parker (Jonathan LaPaglia) and they've sprung him from a CIA loony bin.
The ones they went loony over last time?
As loony as they come.

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