Synonyms of nuts

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adjective

1

as in psychotic

having or showing a very abnormal or sick state of mind

the bizarre rantings in the notes left behind by the artist convinced historians that the guy was nuts

Synonyms & Similar Words

• psychotic
• lunatic
• mad
• insane
• crazy
• maniac
• gaga
• maniacal
• mental
• paranoid
• looney
• psycho
• nutty
• cuckoo
• crazed
• paranoidal
• whacko
• wacko
• whacky
• cracked
• loony
• disturbed
• batty
• deranged
• unhinged
• certifiable
• demented
• irrational
• ballistic
• haywire
• meshuga
• bonkers
• unbalanced
• loony tunes
• around the bend
• strange
• loco
• screwy
• eccentric
• wacky
• bats
• crackers
• crackbrained
• bedlam
• crackpot
• depressed
• barmy
• kooky
• daft
• out to lunch
• bughouse
• non compos mentis
• kookie
• daffy
• moonstruck
• looney tunes
• foolish
• scatty
• obsessed
• odd
• unreasonable
• off
• meshuggah
• fruity
• meshugah
• brainsick
• meshugge
• unsound
• hysteric
• wud
• distracted
• cranky
• distraught
• balmy
• off one's rocker
• loopy
• off one's gourd
• neurotic
• out of one's mind
• paranoic
• hysterical
• frantic
• tetched
• off one's head
• fey
• delusional
• queer
• schizophrenic
• out of one's head
• paranoiac
• disordered
• touched
• oddball
• nuclear
• schizoid
• obsessive-compulsive
• delirious
• delusionary
• sociopathic
• berserk
• aberrant
• dotty
• bananas
• pixillated
• raving
• amuck
• pixilated
• potty
• witless
• ape
• amok
• senseless
• fixated
• monomaniacal
• teched
• monomaniac
• frenzied
• wigged-out

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• sound
• sane
• balanced
• reasonable
• clear
• rational
• wise
• sensible
• compos mentis
• normal
• uncrazy
• judicious
• lucid
• healthy
• well-adjusted
• unneurotic

2

as in excited

showing urgent desire or interest

I'm nuts for the homecoming game

Synonyms & Similar Words

• excited
• avid
• enthusiastic
• eager
• anxious
• hungry
• ardent
• keen
• pumped
• crazy
• impatient
• greedy
• juiced
• thirsty
• desirous
• wild
• interested
• gung ho
• happy
• voracious
• ready
• antsy
• solicitous
• geeked
• great
• agog
• champing at the bit
• chomping at the bit
• enthused
• hot
• stoked
• willing
• raring
• hopped-up
• hepped up
• engaged
• obsessed
• athirst
• longing
• glad
• ambitious
• restless
• covetous
• craving
• game
• pining
• breathless
• inclined
• restive
• appetent
• disposed
• amenable
• hankering
• hung up
• unreluctant

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• indifferent
• apathetic
• casual
• unenthusiastic
• uninterested
• unconcerned
• detached
• aloof
• disinterested
• nonchalant
• incurious
• insouciant
• reluctant
• impassive
• uneager
• stolid
• unwilling
• lukewarm
• averse
• loath
• hesitant
• lackadaisical
• halfhearted
• languid
• spiritless
• languorous
• loth
• disinclined
• loathe

nuts

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noun

plural of nut

as in nonsense

language, behavior, or ideas that are absurd and contrary to good sense

responding to your opponent's every argument with "Nuts!" is not exactly finely reasoned refutation

Synonyms & Similar Words

• nonsense
• garbage
• drool
• rubbish
• blah
• beans
• silliness
• stupidity
• craziness
• jazz
• bunk
• muck
• fudge
• trash
• rot
• boloney
• baloney
• insanity
• falderal
• foolishness
• punk
• hogwash
• madness
• bull
• claptrap
• malarky
• bilge
• fiddle
• guff
• hooey
• poppycock
• crock
• blah-blah
• hokum
• bosh
• balderdash
• applesauce
• fiddlesticks
• bunkum
• humbuggery
• blither
• twaddle
• nerts
• buncombe
• malarkey
• flapdoodle
• folderol
• trumpery
• blather
• tommyrot
• codswallop
• piffle
• horsefeathers
• blatherskite
• tarradiddle
• crapola
• absurdity
• blarney
• drivel
• tosh
• hokeypokey
• humbug
• taradiddle
• absurdness
• fiddle-faddle
• moonshine
• hoodoo
• folly
• flannel
• idiocy
• slush
• senselessness
• kookiness
• gas
• greek
• lunacy
• foolery
• tomfoolery
• inanity
• monkey business
• inaneness
• rigamarole
• hot air
• imbecility
• rigmarole
• asininity
• monkeyshine(s)
• witlessness
• shenanigan(s)
• hoity-toity
• hocus-pocus
• fatuity
• double-talk

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• rationality
• reasonableness
• common sense
• sense
• horse sense
• sensibleness
• reasonability
• levelheadedness
• wisdom
• judgment
• judgement
• discernment

Phrases Containing nuts

• nuts (about)
• nuts and bolts

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