0 strange, surprising, or uncontrolled in a humorous way:
1 surprisingly different and a little strange, and therefore amusing and interesting:
He was responsible for the zany Sesame Street puppet characters loved by children worldwide.
This is probably why experimental work is often criticized for being unintelligible or too zany to be held to the same standards as orthodox writing.
We are the zanies of sorrow.
The main cost-effective improvement would be to get rid of the zany system altogether.
We live in a society where there are all sorts of different views and people, and we regard some views as completely zany.
They usually want to be a jet aircraft pilot, a double-glazing salesman or anything completely zany.
Some of them may be zany and not worth a great deal of consideration.
Among many zany undertakings, that is perhaps the most irresponsible.
I cannot help feeling that this was a zany idea which came forward and got disseminated a bit too rapidly.
