DAFT


Meaning of DAFT in English

adjective

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADVERB

as

But nothing is as daft as the way they're wasting Steve McFadden.

I don't think that kid's as daft as he makes out.

so

It rises with the tide, only no one's so daft as to stay and see how high.

Well, half-a-kilo lane sounds so daft !

I now ask myself how I could have been so daft .

This is what made the Donovan libel action so daft .

■ NOUN

thing

But it was a daft thing to ask, wasn't it?

The daft thing was there was a rose on her pillow.

The daft thing was they were probably going back to where we'd been working.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

Don't be daft ! Of course you're not too old to go clubbing.

Is this another of your daft ideas?

She's as daft as a brush, honestly she is.

Well, what's the daftest thing you've ever done at work?

What a daft thing to say!

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

And it's particularly daft when the firm itself has gone bust.

Before, I'd felt little resentment and shrugged off being labelled daft or deaf, never needing to cry in front of them.

But it was a daft thing to ask, wasn't it?

But she had some daft ideas about this place.

Excuse me while I dive back into my piles of daft statistics.

It's the hangover from twenty-four hours of daft behaviour.

It rises with the tide, only no one's so daft as to stay and see how high.

Would he really countenance such a daft proposal?

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