batty
Americanadjective
adjective
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insane; crazy
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odd; eccentric
Other Word Forms
- battiness noun
Etymology
Origin of batty
Example Sentences
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The story “After the Haiku Period,” about batty twin sisters who lay siege to a slaughterhouse, reprises the material.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 14, 2025
“A Working Man” opens with a batty pastiche of bullets and buzz saws, parachutes and cranes.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 27, 2025
Kim cooks up a flavorful stew of influences, blending the “Rio Bravo”-style neo-Western narrative with the action pyrotechnics of vintage Schwarzenegger and Kim’s batty, comic, postmodern style.
From New York Times • Apr. 28, 2023
An unusually batty college football season heads for the usual batty November with an evil eye upon 13.
From Washington Post • Oct. 30, 2022
The littlun Percival had early crawled into a shelter and stayed there for two days, talking, singing, and crying, till they thought him batty and were faintly amused.
From "Lord of the Flies" by William Golding
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