Explore Daft through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like balmy or loco. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Daft meaning
- Foolish, silly, stupid.
- Crazy, insane, mad.
- Gentle, meek, mild.
Synonyms of Daft
Using Daft
- The main meaning on this page is: Foolish, silly, stupid. | Crazy, insane, mad. | Gentle, meek, mild.
- Useful related words include: balmy, loco, kookie, kooky.
- Possible Dutch translations are: dwaas, idioot.
- In the example corpus, daft often appears in combinations such as: daft punk, daft ie, daft to.
Context around Daft
- Average sentence length in these examples: 25.4 words
- Position in the sentence: 4 start, 11 middle, 5 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Daft
- In this selection, "daft" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 25.4 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, bit, write, sounds, punk, disko and referendum stand out and add context to how "daft" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a bit daft for not and and some daft audience games. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "daft" sits close to words such as abate, aeronautics and affidavits, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with daft
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Daft Punk might be on a hiatus, but Daft Disko is still alive and well. (15 words)
Hopefully it will be the same for the television show, what a daft programme to do. (16 words)
Matthew said: “He used to write daft rhyming poems for friends’ 25th, 40th and 60th anniversaries. (16 words)
Reform UK said its former candidate Grant StClair-Armstrong made “daft” comments at a “difficult and angry time in his life”, after he resigned from the party for previously calling on people to vote for the British National Party (BNP). (40 words)
Even, if I’m honest, in the SNP it was an uphill struggle to get much enthusiasm going, such was the unanimity of view that this was a daft referendum David Cameron and Nigel Farage had inflicted on us. (39 words)
Leiji Matsumoto, the Japanese manga and anime creator known for science fiction sagas, TV series like Space Pirate Captain Harlock and music videos for Daft Punk, died of acute heart failure on February 13. He was 85. (37 words)
Example sentences (20)
Daft Punk might be on a hiatus, but Daft Disko is still alive and well.
Ballintotis Castle is located near Castlemartyr and is on the market for €450,000 according to a listing on Daft.
Even, if I’m honest, in the SNP it was an uphill struggle to get much enthusiasm going, such was the unanimity of view that this was a daft referendum David Cameron and Nigel Farage had inflicted on us.
His second criticism is that demonising the fossil fuel giants – or over taxing them with even higher windfall taxes – is daft.
Hopefully it will be the same for the television show, what a daft programme to do.
If you buy the notion that krakens shrink down to human scale — and that none-too-bright people might be daft enough not to spot them — then the high school scenes are charming.
It's also unbelievably simple, the sort of thing you feel a bit daft for not doing until now.
Leiji Matsumoto, the Japanese manga and anime creator known for science fiction sagas, TV series like Space Pirate Captain Harlock and music videos for Daft Punk, died of acute heart failure on February 13. He was 85.
Matthew said: “He used to write daft rhyming poems for friends’ 25th, 40th and 60th anniversaries.
That sounds daft when a team has just been beaten 5-1 but Isak looks a hell of a player.
The Daft.ie quarterly rental report showed that while rents had fallen by 2.1% in Cork City, they had risen by 3.2% across Cork County.
What you probably didn’t see was video footage from other angles showing the president gesturing toward onlookers behind him — precisely the context you’d leave out if you just wanted to make him look daft.
You’re not going to see Daft Punk at Coachella this year, and you’re super weird for thinking you might.
Amy said: "Laura and I work together in the NHS and we are both cat daft.
Artie is promising Christmas Singalong songs and some daft audience games, while children and adults alike are being encouraged to wear a Santa hat to enjoy the show to the full.
He says the differential between gas and electricity prices makes it financially ‘daft’ to replace a gas boiler with a heat pump.
It comes after 'Spoons boss Tim Martin said proposals to shrink "daft" and won’t reduce how much we drink.
It seems daft to say of a player who hit 50 caps for his country this year and who made his senior debut in 2016, but this has been a breakthrough season for Ethan Ampadu.
Recently, we have seen a similar rise in daft and damaging spending at Easter – with it expected to almost double since last year.
Reform UK said its former candidate Grant StClair-Armstrong made “daft” comments at a “difficult and angry time in his life”, after he resigned from the party for previously calling on people to vote for the British National Party (BNP).
Common combinations with daft
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- daft punk 14×
- daft ie 7×
- daft to 6×
- daft and 6×
- the daft 5×
- be daft 3×
- bit daft 3×
- in daft 2×
- utterly daft 2×
- latest daft 2×