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

But, spending a bunch of money on decorations for your son's dorm room, if that's happening, is nuts. — Joe Kinsey Outkick, FOXNews.com, 4 Aug. 2026

Fans went nuts as Aldis pulled Gunther to the middle of the ring. — Alfred Konuwa, Forbes.com, 1 Aug. 2026

Noun

When Oscar halfheartedly tries to throw a ball into one of the set’s prop cubes and improbably makes the shot, the whole set goes joyously nuts, with the performers leaping up to embrace him and cavort around him. — Tasha Robinson, Vulture, 22 Sep. 2026

Two of the key ingredients in that recipe were Egyptian black honey, which is actually a kind of sugarcane molasses, and tiger nuts, which are edible tubers that are said to taste kind of like almonds or coconut. — Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 20 Sep. 2026

Phrases Containing nuts

• nuts (about)
• nuts and bolts

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