balmily

• Adverb, das «mild, angenehm warm» (vom Wetter) bedeutet oder, seltener, im übertragenen Sinn «albern, verrückt» (von umgangssprachlich 'balmy' — verrückt, schrullig).

An adverb meaning "in a balmy manner" — typically used to describe weather that is pleasantly warm and mild, or, less commonly, in a figurative sense meaning "foolishly" or "eccentrically" (derived from the informal sense of 'balmy' meaning crazy or silly).

1. In a mildly insane mannerC1informal

   Acting in a way that is slightly crazy or eccentric, but not dangerously so.

   Leicht verrückt

   • He smiled balmily at the strange question.
   • She wandered balmily through the garden, talking to the flowers.
   • The old man chuckled balmily to himself.

   Synonymecrazilydaftlydottilyeccentrically

   Antonymerationallysanelysensibly