daft

Meaning

Adjective

• Foolish, silly, stupid.
• Crazy, insane, mad.
• Gentle, meek, mild.

Origin

• From Middle English dafte, defte, from Old English dæfte,, from Proto-West Germanic *daftī, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *dʰh₂ebʰ-. Related to Old English dafnian, dafenian, Russian до́брый.
• Compare silly which originally meant “blessed; good, innocent; pitiful; weak”, but now means “laughable or amusing through foolishness or a foolish appearance; mentally simple, foolish”.