as in eccentric
a person of odd or whimsical habits
if you insist on painting your house bright orange, everyone will assume you are a kook
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Recent Examples of kook
The kooks followed the visionaries.
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Bill Keenan, airmail.news, 17 Feb. 2024
Its inner acolytes came across, by contrast, as uncannily contrived kooks.
—Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 21 Mar. 2025
No flying monkey drive-by attacks or bug-eyed conspiracy kooks.
—Faisal Kutty, Newsweek, 10 Mar. 2025
The brand’s ready-to-wear this season felt like a conjoining of ideas in its other shows over the past few seasons, creating a kind of wearable kook.
—Julian Randall, Essence, 3 Mar. 2025
See All Example Sentences for kook
Bill Keenan, airmail.news, 17 Feb. 2024
Its inner acolytes came across, by contrast, as uncannily contrived kooks.
—Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 21 Mar. 2025
No flying monkey drive-by attacks or bug-eyed conspiracy kooks.
—Faisal Kutty, Newsweek, 10 Mar. 2025
The brand’s ready-to-wear this season felt like a conjoining of ideas in its other shows over the past few seasons, creating a kind of wearable kook.
—Julian Randall, Essence, 3 Mar. 2025
See All Example Sentences for kook
Recent Examples of Synonyms for kook
Noun
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Robert Redford delivers folksy wisdom as a local eccentric who once had his own dragon encounter, and even Karl Urban’s greedy logger is more of a nuisance than an outright villain.—
Josh Bell,
Vulture,
21 Mar. 2025
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Attracting talent for greater innovation hazards acquiring a few eccentrics whose gifts come wrapped in controversial packaging.—
Chip Bell,
Forbes,
15 Mar. 2025
Noun
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Alanna is definitely in the running for my favorite overhauled show character.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
28 Mar. 2025
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The series’s expansion of the portrait of the prince’s other children is at first welcome, but this determination to better round out secondary characters soon becomes an enormous problem.—
Anthony Paletta,
The Washington Examiner,
28 Mar. 2025
Noun
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That’s what Elliot (Rudd) and his daughter Ridley (Ortega) confront while on a journey to a retreat hosted by Elliot’s greedy crackpot boss (Grant).—
Randy Myers,
The Mercury News,
21 Mar. 2025
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With Mickey 17, Pattinson doubles down (literally) on the crackpot touches and gives Bong’s follow-up to Parasite a true sense of unpredictable, undeniable lunacy.—
David Fear,
Rolling Stone,
8 Mar. 2025
Noun
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Parker Posey, Jason Isaacs, Walton Goggins and everyone else are doing a terrific job as rich weirdos in Thailand facing various existential crises.—
Erik Kain,
Forbes.com,
28 Mar. 2025
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What about actually getting SpaceGhostPurrp or an underground weirdo on a track?—
Kieran Press-Reynolds,
Pitchfork,
19 Mar. 2025
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“Kook.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/kook. Accessed 22 Apr. 2025.
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