'Flaky' definitions:
Definition of 'flaky'
From: WordNet
adjective
Made of or resembling flakes; "flaky soap" [syn: flaky, flakey]
adjective
Made of or easily forming flakes [syn: flaky, flakey]
adjective
Conspicuously or grossly unconventional or unusual; "restaurants of bizarre design--one like a hat, another like a rabbit"; "famed for his eccentric spelling"; "a freakish combination of styles"; "his off-the-wall antics"; "the outlandish clothes of teenagers"; "outre and affected stage antics" [syn: bizarre, eccentric, freakish, freaky, flaky, flakey, gonzo, off-the-wall, outlandish, outre]
Definition of 'Flaky'
From: GCIDE
- Flaky \Flak"y\, a.
- 1. Consisting of flakes or of small, loose masses; lying, or cleaving off, in flakes or layers; flakelike. [1913 Webster]
- What showers of mortal hail, what flaky fires! --Watts. [1913 Webster]
- A flaky weight of winter's purest snows. --Wordsworth. [1913 Webster]
- 2. prone to strange or erratic behavior; -- of persons. [PJC]
- 3. odd, unpredictable or unconventional; offbeat; whacky; -- of behavior. [PJC]
- 4. unpredictable, erratic, or unreliable; -- of machinery, especially electronic devices. "a flaky computer board." [PJC]
Synonyms of 'flaky'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abnormal,
- anomalous,
- apish,
- arbitrary,
- asinine,
- asperous,
- balmy,
- bananas,
- barmy,
- bats,
- batty,
- beany,
- befooled,
- beguiled,
- besotted,
- bonkers,
- brainless,
- branny,
- buffoonish,
- buggy,
- bughouse,
- bugs,
- capricious,
- chalklike,
- chalky,
- cockeyed,
- comminute,
- comminuted,
- crackers,
- crank,
- crankish,
- cranky,
- crazy,
- credulous,
- crotchety,
- crushed,
- cuckoo,
- daffy,
- daft,
- dazed,
- detrital,
- detrited,
- deviant,
- deviative,
- different,
- dippy,
- disintegrated,
- divergent,
- dizzy,
- doting,
- dotty,
- dumb,
- dusty,
- eccentric,
- efflorescent,
- erratic,
- exceptional,
- fanciful,
- fantasied,
- fantastic,
- farinaceous,
- fatuitous,
- fatuous,
- fey,
- fine,
- flipped,
- flocculent,
- floury,
- fond,
- fool,
- foolheaded,
- foolish,
- freaked-out,
- freakish,
- fruitcakey,
- fruity,
- fuddled,
- funny,
- furfuraceous,
- futile,
- gaga,
- gone to dust,
- goofy,
- grated,
- ground,
- gulled,
- harebrained,
- haywire,
- humorsome,
- idiocratic,
- idiosyncratic,
- idiotic,
- imbecile,
- impalpable,
- inane,
- inept,
- infatuated,
- insane,
- irregular,
- just plain nuts,
- kinky,
- kooky,
- lentiginous,
- lepidote,
- levigated,
- loony,
- loopy,
- mad,
- maggoty,
- maudlin,
- mealy,
- milled,
- moody,
- moronic,
- motiveless,
- notional,
- nuts,
- nutty,
- odd,
- oddball,
- off the hinges,
- off the track,
- off the wall,
- peculiar,
- pestled,
- petulant,
- potty,
- powdered,
- powdery,
- pulverant,
- pulverized,
- pulverulent,
- queer,
- quirky,
- reduced to powder,
- round the bend,
- sappy,
- scabby,
- scabious,
- scabrous,
- scaly,
- scobicular,
- scobiform,
- screwball,
- screwballs,
- screwy,
- scurfy,
- senseless,
- sentimental,
- sharded,
- shredded,
- silly,
- singular,
- slaphappy,
- squamous,
- strange,
- stupid,
- temperamental,
- thoughtless,
- triturated,
- twisted,
- unconventional,
- unnatural,
- unreasonable,
- unrestrained,
- vagarious,
- vagrant,
- wacky,
- wanton,
- wayward,
- wet,
- whimsical,
- witless