英:['dɑ:ftlɪ]
美:['dɑftlɪ]
英:['dɑ:ftlɪ]
美:['dɑftlɪ]
adjective
chiefly British, informal silly, foolish see also daft as a brush
Don't do anything daft.
chiefly British, informal mad, insane
… he looks at me as if I were daft.—Johanna McGeary
Scotland frivolously merry
Middle English daffte, daft, defte "well-mannered, gentle, dull, foolish," going back to Old English gedæfte "gentle, mild, meek," adjective derivative of a Germanic base *daƀ- "becoming, fit" (whence also Old English gedafen "appropriate, fitting," Gothic gadaban "to happen, be suitable," with lengthened grade Old English gedēfe "fitting, worthy, quiet, tranquil," Middle Dutch onghedoef "wild, rough," Gothic gadob ist "it is fitting"), going back to dialectal Indo-European *dhabh- or *dhobh-, whence also Old Church Slavic podobati "to become, be fitting," dobrŭ "good, pleasant," Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian dôba, dȍba "time, season," Lithuanian dabà "nature, character," dabnùs "well-dressed, elegant" Note: The sense progression from Germanic to Modern English is apparently "fit, becoming" to "well-mannered, modest" to "dull, stupid" to "foolish, irrational." See also deft.
The first known use of daft was in the 14th century
dangleverb
to hang loosely especially with a swinging motion
to be left without proper grammatical connection in a sentence
a dangling participle
to cause to dangle : swing
Danenoun
a person born or living in Denmark
a person of Danish ancestry
dandleverb
to move up and down in one's arms or on one's knee in affectionate play
pamper, pet
damp1 of 3noun
a harmful gas especially in a coal mine
moisture, humidity
discouragement sense 2
damp2 of 3verb
dampen
damp3 of 3adjective
slightly wet
damselnoun
girl sense 1b, maiden
dalmatiannoun
any of a breed of dogs that have a white short-haired coat with many black or brown spots
dallyverb
to act playfully : trifle
to waste time
dally at one's work
linger sense 1, dawdle
dally on the way home
Dakotanoun
a member of an Indigenous people of the northern Mississippi valley
daisynoun
any of numerous plants of the composite family having flower heads with well-developed ray flowers: as
a low-growing European herb with white or pink ray flowers
a tall leafy-stemmed wildflower introduced into America from Europe and having a flower head with a yellow disk in the center surrounded by long white ray flowers
the flower head of a daisy
capitalized a member of the Girl Scouts of the United States of America program for girls in kindergarten and first grade
daftadjective
foolish, silly
insane, mad
1 How funny is this daft assault on your laugh reflex?
2 A large box there is filled with thousands of olives; the Argentine artist Marta Minujín, rather daftly, proposes Greeks could win debt cancellation with stone fruit.
3 The Beatles went a bit daft in their quest to be the Band, even dressing the part for their final photo shoots.
4 It seems like a cliche, as perhaps with everything with Swedish House Mafia, but it's no less daftly enjoyable for that.
5 Christian Slater, taking a break from USA Network's "Mr. Robot," not only made a dashing Sir Galahad but proved daftly effective with the script's literal-minded wordplay.
6 The wholesaler’s daft budget paints a grim picture, opening with a startling message from the agency’s soon-to-retire general manager, Sandy Kerl.
7 Plus, the whole idea that the purpose of anti-monopoly law was to promote good monopolies was just … daft.
8 A bard crafts a sad ballad, And sang that ballad back: ’Twas a dark and sad and clammy day; A lark caws daftly, madly.
9 Almost every scene has both whimsy and something darker, at once daftly effervescent and snidely cynical.
10 And, she explains, daftly, “I wasn’t tempted to buy one, but I was reminded of the fact that I had been avoiding the beach.”
11 "I'm none so daft as daftly dealt with, mother," interrupted the blacksmith.
12 He may have said some daftly memorable things in the past, but that is because he will generally try to answer questions honestly and originally, without recourse to off-the-peg excuses or platitudes.
13 Wafting about in a flowy, sky-blue negligee, Rachel Bay Jones’ lady of leisure is daft but sweet and accidentally profound.
14 The cartoonist Liana Finck introduces this collection of delirious, daftly satisfying love comics from the early 1960s by an unsung master.
15 Your idea seems a bit daft to me.
16 Once a digitally daft chamber, today—after a summer of studying AI—most senators feel savvy enough on the topic to have a few earfuls of complaints for the giants of Silicon Valley.
17 If there's a theme of engagement emerging from this week's social TV, then that theme is that we're big fans of pointing out when daft people behave daftly.
18 She looked at us as if we'd gone daft.
19 Instinctively, daftly, brutishly, I harnessed ten of them to my sledge; put on Canadian snow-shoes: and was away northward—alone.
20 He daftly pulled half-a-dozen tickets from his stock and permitted me to inspect them.
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