Synonyms of nuts

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adjective

ˈnəts 

1

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

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

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

2

as in mad

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

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

Synonyms & Similar Words

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

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

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

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

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

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

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of nuts

Adjective

How to Enjoy Nuts as a Snack A handful of your favorite nuts makes a tasty snack any time of day, but there are so many other ways to enjoy nuts morning, noon, and night. — Melissa Kravitz Hoeffner, Martha Stewart, 27 June 2026

Talking about anything else felt nuts. — Amanda Petrusich, New Yorker, 22 June 2026

Noun

Members of the generation most often ate burgers, sandwiches/wraps (26%), fruit, nuts, seeds and pastries (13%) and ice cream (9%). — Teresa Mull, FOXNews.com, 14 July 2026

California is significant because the state supplies nearly half of the vegetables and more than three-quarters of the fruits and nuts eaten in the United States. — Sandee Lamotte, CNN Money, 10 July 2026

Phrases Containing nuts

• nuts (about)
• nuts and bolts

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