Synonyms of bonkers

bonkers

adjective

ˈbäŋ-kərz 

1

as in excited

informal showing urgent desire or interest

The friends are bonkers about the new video game, and play together for hours at a time.

Synonyms & Similar Words

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

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

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

2

as in insane

informal + sometimes offensive unable to think in a clear or sensible way

She spent her last years as a totally bonkers recluse in a decaying mansion.

Synonyms & Similar Words

• insane
• mad
• psychotic
• maniacal
• crazy
• nuts
• mental
• crazed
• demented
• psycho
• disturbed
• unhinged
• batty
• deranged
• daft
• nutty
• loco
• unbalanced
• foolish
• strange
• certifiable
• eccentric
• irrational
• off
• around the bend
• cracked
• depressed
• out to lunch
• obsessed
• haywire
• non compos mentis
• unsound
• brainsick
• queer
• ballistic
• loopy
• distracted
• unreasonable
• fey
• distraught
• crackers
• bats
• hysterical
• frantic
• wud
• delirious
• delusional
• dotty
• oddball
• odd
• off one's rocker
• disordered
• delusionary
• nuclear
• off one's head
• off one's gourd
• aberrant
• berserk
• out of one's head
• touched
• witless
• pixilated
• raving
• potty
• monomaniacal
• frenzied
• senseless
• fixated
• teched
• ape
• monomaniac
• wigged-out
• amok
• bananas

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

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

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of bonkers

The footage is also a fun reminder that Australia is an absolutely bonkers place. — David Hookstead Outkick, FOXNews.com, 26 June 2026

Rinna briefly conflated the mayor’s race with the California’s equally bonkers gubernatorial contest. — Marc Malkin, Variety, 26 May 2026

There were indelible clutch moments and absolutely bonkers endings. — Steven Louis Goldstein, New York Times, 10 Jan. 2026

Tanyard Hill, located next to Coy Hill, is home to four warehouses built in the early ’60s that also apparently yield barrels with truly bonkers levels of alcohol. — Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 9 Nov. 2025

Graffiti historian Roger Gastman—who helped orchestrate MOCA’s record-setting Art in the Streets show in 2011—takes over a 40,000-square-foot warehouse on the edge of Chinatown for a totally bonkers street art experience. — Marielle Wakim, Los Angeles Magazine, 21 June 2018

Hulu’s new show from the creator of Luther is a totally bonkers melange of sci-fi scenarios, global doom, and stabbiness. — Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 7 Mar. 2018