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

That same year, the company closed its Emerald nuts manufacturing plant on Crump Road, resulting in 125 layoffs. — Charlotte Observer, 5 Sep. 2026

Last month, when video of a runaway piglet tearing down Hayworth Avenue and through the alleys near Canter’s Deli hit social media, the internet went nuts. — Benjamin Svetkey, HollywoodReporter, 2 Sep. 2026

Noun

The nuts carry melatonin, tryptophan, magnesium, zinc and vitamin B6, which all play a role in how the body winds down. — Samantha Agate, Kansas City Star, 25 Oct. 2026

Pipe on the caramel cream cheese frosting and top the cake with nuts and blackberries. — Mary Shannon Wells, Southern Living, 25 Oct. 2026

Phrases Containing nuts

• nuts (about)
• nuts and bolts

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