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nutty adjective [ ˈnʌti ]

• tasting like nuts.
• "wild rice has a very nutty flavour"
• mad; crazy.
• "he came up with a few nutty proposals"
Similar: mad, insane, mentally ill, certifiable, deranged, demented, of unsound mind, out of one's mind, not in one's right mind, sick in the head, not together, crazy, crazed, lunatic, non compos mentis, unbalanced, unhinged, unstable, disturbed, distracted, stark mad, manic, frenzied, raving, distraught, frantic, hysterical, delirious, psychotic, psychopathic, mad as a hatter, mad as a March hare, foaming at the mouth, sectionable, mental, off one's head, out of one's head, off one's nut, nuts, nutty as a fruitcake, off one's rocker, not (quite) right in the head, round the bend, stark raving mad, raving mad, bats, bonkers, cuckoo, cracked, loopy, loony, bananas, loco, dippy, screwy, schizoid, touched, gaga, off the wall, not all there, not right upstairs, barmy, crackers, barking, barking mad, stark staring mad, batty, dotty, round the twist, off one's trolley, as daft as a brush, not the full shilling, up the pole, away with the fairies, buggy, nutsy, nutso, out of one's tree, meshuga, squirrelly, wacko, bushed, yarra, porangi, have a screw loose, have bats in the/one's belfry,
Opposite: sane,

be nutty about

• like very much.
"he is nutty about boats"

as nutty as a fruitcake

• completely insane.



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