Dictionary Definition
balmy adj
1 informal or slang terms for mentally irregular;
"it used to drive my husband balmy" [syn: barmy, bats, batty, bonkers, buggy, cracked, crackers, daft, dotty, fruity, haywire, kooky, kookie, loco, loony, loopy, nuts, nutty, round the
bend, around the
bend, wacky, whacky]
2 mild and pleasant; "balmy days and nights";
"the climate was mild and conducive to life or growth" [syn:
mild] [also: balmiest, balmier]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ɑːmi
Translations
soothing or fragrant
- Finnish: rauhoittava (soothing), tuoksuva (fragrant)
- German: lindernd, mildernd, sanft
- Hungarian: balzsamos, illatos
- Russian: ароматный, благоуханный
mild and pleasant
- Finnish: leppeä, lempeä, leuto
- German: mild, sanft
- Hungarian: balzsamos, enyhe
- Russian: нежный
slang: foolish
- Finnish: hämy
- Hungarian: bolondos, hóbortos
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
Saturnian, absurd, agreeable, allaying, alleviating, alleviative, ambrosial, analgesic, anesthetic, anodyne, aromatic, assuaging, assuasive, balsamic, bananas, barmy, bats, batty, beany, benumbing, bland, blooming, blossoming, bonkers, booming, bright, buggy, bughouse, bugs, cathartic, cleansing, clear, crackers, crazy, cuckoo, daffy, deadening, delightful, demulcent, dippy, dotty, dulling, easing, emollient, essenced, exuberant, faint, fair, fat, flaky, flipped, flourishing, flowering, flowery, fragrant, freaked-out, fruitcakey, fruiting, fruity, gaga, going strong, goofy, gratifying, halcyon, harebrained, haywire, in full swing, in good
case, incense-breathing, insane, just plain nuts, kooky, lenient, lenitive, lightening, loony, loopy, mild, mitigating, mitigative, musky, numbing, nuts, nutty, odorate, odoriferous, odorous, off the hinges, off the
track, off the wall, pain-killing, palliative, palmy, perfumed, perfumy, piping, pleasant, pleasing, potty, preposterous, prospering, purgative, redolent, refreshing, rejuvenating, relieving, remedial, restorative, rosy, round the bend, savory, scented, screwball, screwballs, screwy, silly, slaphappy, sleek, smooth, soft, softening, soothing, spicy, subduing, sunny, sweet, sweet-scented,
sweet-smelling, thriving, thuriferous, vigorous, wacky