BANANAS Synonyms: 85 Similar and Opposite Words

bananas

adjective

Definition of bananas

as in nuts

informal lacking sanity; a state or condition of mental unsoundness If you ask me, that guy is bananas. All the noise drove me bananas.

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The current situation is nuts, between Lane Kiffin down in Louisiana trying to bring NFL players back to college sports, or up in Lubbock and Brendan Sorsby being allowed to play.

— Stewart Mandel, New York Times, 14 Sep. 2026
The fact anyone tries to use John Brown to take the moral high ground is nuts.

— Pete Grathoff, Kansas City Star, 8 Sep. 2026

Definition of nuts

Adjective

To Hitchcock, the indelible feature of Roosevelt’s Presidency was his desire to protect democratic norms and processes amid crises, even as critics accused him of being a power-mad dictator or a Communist sympathizer.

— Beverly Gage, New Yorker, 28 Sep. 2026
The video has so many of Taylor’s favorite tropes—weddings that turn into a mess, metaphorically breaking glass, red wine spilling, mad women, chatty ghosts, symbolic houses.

— Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 28 Sep. 2026

Definition of mad

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In particular, users are gravitating towards — and posting their own covers of — the bridge, which finds Williams belting insane high notes.

— Andrew Unterberger, Billboard, 30 Sep. 2026
Evidently, the Manhunter released gas that drove Antaan’s people insane, forcing many of them to jump to their deaths.

— Ben Travers, IndieWire, 27 Sep. 2026

Definition of insane

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Investigators recovered ballistic evidence but have little information about what led to the shooting, Butler said.

— CBS News Atlanta Digital Team, CBS News, 29 Sep. 2026
Sanon is also accused obtaining an arsenal of weapons, ammunition and ballistic vests, culminating in the dead-of-night operation coordinated by his allies to storm Moïse’s private residence.

— Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 28 Sep. 2026

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