loopier; loopiest
1
: having or characterized by loops
2
loopily adverb
loopiness noun

Examples of loopy in a Sentence

The movie has a certain loopy charm.
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But the biggest influence here is the late, great Broad City, with its loopy surreal touches and its willingness to gleefully trample over any notion of good taste. Dave Nemetz, TVLine, 28 May 2025 With hitters, getting players with long, loopy swings is not working. Troy Renck, Denver Post, 21 May 2025 That film’s loopy, entropic plot wasn’t for everyone, but the film did serve as a boundary-breaking showcase for Asian actors (among them Michelle Yeoh and Ke Huy Quan, both of whom won Academy Awards), and explored, at least in a loose, freewheeling way, philosophies largely ignored in the West. Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 28 Mar. 2025 Its cataclysmic science-fiction premise hinges on the loopiest of ideas, which is the Looney Tunes formula in a nutshell: Take a popular conceit and send it spinning in a cracked direction with warp-speed slapstick and throw-everything-at-the-wall humor. Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 13 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for loopy

Word History

First Known Use

1811, in the meaning defined at sense 1

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The first known use of loopy was in 1811

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“Loopy.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/loopy. Accessed 5 Jun. 2025.

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