dotty adj

1 informal or slang terms for mentally irregular; "it used to drive my husband balmy" [syn: balmy, barmy, bats, batty, bonkers, buggy, cracked, crackers, daft, fruity, haywire, kooky, kookie, loco, loony, loopy, nuts, nutty, round the bend, around the bend, wacky, whacky]

2 marked by foolish or unreasoning fondness; "she was crazy about him"; "gaga over the rock group's new album"; "he was infatuated with her" [syn: crazy, gaga, enamored, infatuated, in love, smitten, soft on(p), taken with(p)] [also: dottiest, dottier]

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɒti

Adjective

1. Containing lots of dots

   I'm all for cheetahs, but why must they be so dotty?

2. Temporarily mad or senile

   My nan has got dottier and dottier since she's got to the age of eighty.

Dotty may refer to:

• dotty, a graph editor, see Graphviz.
• some kind of fantasy fiction work by R. A. Lafferty.

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