screwball Definition

crazy, softheaded, crackpot, nutcase, fruitcake, crank, nut, impractical, half-baked, lunatic, wacko, psycho, weirdo, insane, kook, maniac, freak, madman, fool, nutter, flake, nuts, comedic, officer, slapstick, daffy, absurdist, zany, loopy, hitchcockian, droll, seriocomic, runyonesque, kooky, pantomimic, wacky, campy, hilarious, noirish, witty, melodramatic, comic, sly, novelistic, comical, uproarious, goofy, hackneyed, smarm, ditsy, deadpan, satiric, quirky, wry, funny, sardonic, oddball, sassy, mawkish, lowbrow, antic, nabokovian, jamesian, wicked, parodic, lumpish, prankish, tragicomic, sophoclean, smirky, overfamiliar, offbeat, eccentric, overdetermined, slangy, mordant, scatterbrained, amusing, blowzy, zipless, mirthless, vixenish, postfeminist, doltish, beguiling, talky, hardboiled, loosey, hacky, dopey, blaxploitation, jazzy, swiftian, improvisational, glib, fringy, picaresque, cinematic, jocose, hokey,