daft

CEFRB2

/dɑːft/

adjective

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In plain English

  1. 01

    adjective

    Silly or not sensible.

  2. 02

    adjective

    Extra detail

    Crazy, insane, mad.

Examples

  • I think that's not a daft solution.

  • This film's getting too daft for me. Let's switch over, Tom.

At a glance

Sits at B2 on the CEFR scale

Senses
4
Parts of speech
1
Citations
5
Synonyms
5

Deep Dive

adjective

Extra meanings

  1. Gentle, meek, mild.

  2. Foolish, silly, stupid.

More examples

In context

  • He's daft about cats.

  • Thou art the daftest fuill that ever I saw. / Trows thou, man, be the law to get remeid / Of men of kirk? Na, nocht till thou be deid.

  • You haven't exactly been playing the master tactician through all this, but that seems the daftest course you could possibly have taken.

Synonyms

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Origin

adjective

From Middle English dafte, defte (“gentle; having good manners; humble, modest; awkward; dull; boorish”), from Old English dæfte (“accommodating; gentle, meek, mild”), from Proto-West Germanic *daftī (“fitting, suitable”). Related to Old English dafnian, dafenian (“to be fitting, appropriate, or becoming”), Russian до́брый (dóbryj, “good”). Doublet of deft. Compare silly which originally meant “blessed; good, innocent; pitiful; weak”, but now means “laughable or amusing through foolishness or a foolish appearance; mentally simple, foolish”. Unrelated to, though perhaps influenced by, daff (“fool (n.); to be foolish (v.)”) (past form daffed).