goofier; goofiest
: being ridiculous or mildly ludicrous : silly
a goofy sense of humor
that hat looks goofy
A big lanky loose-jointed kid with long wavy blond hair and a goofy grin …—
Garrison Keillor
Garrison KeillorExamples of goofy in a Sentence
She was making goofy faces at us.
goofy charm
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Pair over Bluetooth, drop a shot into the app, add a collage frame or goofy sticker, and in half a minute, a wide-format print pops out.
—Shubham Yewale, PC Magazine, 27 May 2025
Willy Memnon, who is endearingly played by Coleman Ray Clark as goofy, childlike and incompetent.
—Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 May 2025
But the laughs don’t last, and Sirens gets pretty dark in later episodes, putting us through a series of intense trauma dumps that clash with the goofy satire surrounding them.
—Dave Nemetz, TVLine, 22 May 2025
The tightrope metaphor can feel goofy and schematic, but there’s also the excitement of tracking the unfurling of a grand statement, and the frisson of wondering whether McCann’s gambit (like Petit’s) will succeed.
—Katy Waldman, New Yorker, 19 May 2025
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Shubham Yewale, PC Magazine, 27 May 2025
Willy Memnon, who is endearingly played by Coleman Ray Clark as goofy, childlike and incompetent.
—Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 May 2025
But the laughs don’t last, and Sirens gets pretty dark in later episodes, putting us through a series of intense trauma dumps that clash with the goofy satire surrounding them.
—Dave Nemetz, TVLine, 22 May 2025
The tightrope metaphor can feel goofy and schematic, but there’s also the excitement of tracking the unfurling of a grand statement, and the frisson of wondering whether McCann’s gambit (like Petit’s) will succeed.
—Katy Waldman, New Yorker, 19 May 2025
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“Goofy.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/goofy. Accessed 4 Jun. 2025.
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