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Synonyms & Antonyms for nuts
Synonyms
balmy, barmy [chiefly British], bats, batty, bedlam, bonkers, brainsick, bughouse [slang], certifiable, crackbrained, cracked, crackers, crackpot, cranky [dialect], crazed, crazy, cuckoo, daffy, daft, demented, deranged, fruity [slang], gaga, haywire, insane, kooky (also kookie), loco [slang], loony (also looney), loony tunes (or looney tunes), lunatic, mad, maniacal (also maniac), mental, meshuga (or meshugge), moonstruck, non compos mentis, nutty, psycho, psychotic, scatty [chiefly British], screwy, unbalanced, unhinged, unsound, wacko (also whacko), wacky (also whacky), wud [chiefly Scottish]
Antonyms
balanced, compos mentis, sane, sound, uncrazy
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Made Good Chocolate Banana Granola Minis These bite-sized nuggets are allergy-friendly with no nuts, gluten, or dairy. — Samantha Cassetty, NBC News, "Back to school: 9 lower-sugar snacks and treats for kids you can feel good about," 21 Aug. 2019 In a separate bowl, combine the flour and/or grains with the nuts, fat, sugar and salt. — Jackie Burrell, The Mercury News, "Nicole Rucker’s how-tos for the perfect fruit crisp or crumble," 3 Aug. 2019 The study’s delicious conclusion was that eating as the Spanish, Italian, and Greeks do — dousing food in olive oil and loading up on fish, nuts, and fresh produce — cuts cardiovascular disease risk by a third. — Julia Belluz, Vox, "This Mediterranean diet study was hugely impactful. The science just fell apart.," 20 June 2018 Next to him a Mexican blanket on an unattended table displayed more nuts, with some Aztec calendars for variety; on the other side of him a man in a red nogales cap was vending wooden birds and cheap jewelry. — Colin Barrett, Harper's magazine, "“Just Keep Going North”," 5 July 2019 The press had a field day, and the public went nuts. — Devin Powell, Discover Magazine, "How the 1919 Solar Eclipse Made Einstein the World's Most Famous Scientist," 24 May 2019 His suggestions were not at all theoretical, but of the nuts-and-bolts variety. — Tim Page, The New York Review of Books, "Late Bloomer," 18 Apr. 2019 Ground gall nuts, taken from an oak-like tree, were boiled to draw out tannic acid, which was mixed with iron sulfate scraped from nails. — Joe Pappalardo, Popular Mechanics, "The Science of Saving the Declaration of Independence," 3 July 2019 Some of the company’s efforts to orchestrate a turnaround helped boost sales of products like Planters nuts, Oscar Mayer deli meat and Capri Sun. — Annie Gasparro, WSJ, "Kraft Heinz Divulges SEC Investigation, Swings to Loss," 21 Feb. 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'nuts.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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