queer

queer
adj
1. unconventional, uncommon, unusual, unique, unorthodox, uncustomary, unwonted, rare; atypical, original, singular, exceptional, individual; unexampled, unparalleled, unprecedented, unfamiliar, uncomfortable; odd, curious, peculiar, offbeat, cranky; incongruous, anomalous, irregular, abnormal, deviate, deviant, Inf. funny, Sl. rum.
2. quaint, eccentric, droll, comical, fanciful, whimsical, capricious, waggish, Sl. balmy, Chiefly Brit. barmy; weird, strange, bizarre, freakish, Sl. far out; grotesque, ridiculous, ludicrous, absurd, preposterous, outlandish, extravagant, fantastic; remarkable, astonishing, extraordinary; exotic, unreal, unnatural, fey, supernatural, preternatural; nondescript, amorphous, indescribable, unclassifiable.
3. suspicious, suspect, questionable, dubious, doubtful, open to doubt, wrong, not right, Inf. shady, Sl. fishy; untrustworthy, disreputable, Inf. crooked, Inf. shifty-eyed.
4. giddy, faint, light-headed, dizzy, reeling, vertiginous; qualmish, uneasy; All Sl. blitzed, zonked, spaced, ripped, spent, wrecked, wasted, out of it.
5. crazy, mad, insane, demented, deranged, irrational, unbalanced, unhinged, insensate, brainsick, of unsound mind, out of one's mind or head or wits, off one's head, mad as a hatter or March hare, daft, touched, crackbrained, Latin, non compos mentis; crazed, frenzied, frantic, frenetic, wild, delirious, rabid, raving, Inf. cracked, Inf. dotty, Inf. daffy, Inf. haywire, Sl. over the top; with bats in one's belfry, with a screw loose, with a few buttons missing, not playing with a full deck, with rooms to let; All Sl. schizo, screwy, squirrely, wacko, wacky, nuts, loony, loco, nutty, ape, bananas, bats, batty, bonkers, bughouse, bugs, cuckoo, dippy, mental, off one's rocker, off the wall, out in left field, Brit. off one's chump.
6.Derogatory. homosexual, Inf. gay, Inf. bent. See homosexual{def. 1).
7.Slang.a. bad, poor, worthless, useless, defective, faulty; deficient, inferior, second-rate, below par or standard.b. counterfeit, spurious, fraudulent, forged, bogus, ungenuine, unauthentic, supposititious, apocryphal, colorable, sham, mock, dummy, bastard, quasi, pseudo, so-called, Inf. fake, Sl. phony.
v
8. spoil, ruin, mar, Fig. butcher; impair, damage, hurt, harm; bungle, bosh, muff, blunder, foul up, make a mess or hash of, Inf. butch, Inf. flub, Inf. gum up the works, Inf. bolix, Sl. mess up, Sl. screw up, Sl. louse up, Sl. blow, Sl. bitch.
9. jeopardize, jeopard, imperil, peril, hazard, threaten, expose, endanger, put in or expose to danger; compromise; commit, venture, chance, stake, gamble, dare, take a chance, tempt fortune.
n
10.Derogatory. homosexual, Derog. homo, Derog. faggot. See homosexual(def. 2).
11.Slang. counterfeit money, false or bad money, base coin, Inf. phony or bogus money, Sl. green goods.

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