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| Main Entry: | nuts/nutty |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | mentally deranged |
| Synonyms: | absurd, batty*, bedlamite, cracked*, crazy, daffy, daft, demented, eccentric, enthusiastic, foolish, gung ho*, harebrained*, insane, irrational, keen, kooky, loony, lunatic, mad, out of one's mind, ridiculous, touched, unusual, wacky*, warm, zealous |
| Antonyms: | balanced, calm, sane, well |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | nutty |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | deranged |
| Synonyms: | absurd, batty, buggy, cracked, crazy, daffy, daft, demented, eccentric, enthusiastic, foolish, gung ho, harebrained, insane, irrational, keen, loony, lunatic, mad, nuts, ridiculous, touched, unusual, wacky, warm, zealous, bedlamite, cockamamie, kooky, potty |
| Antonyms: | sane |
| Main Entry: | absurd |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | ridiculous, senseless |
| Synonyms: | batty, crazy, daffy, flaky*, foolish, goofy*, idiotic, illogical, inane, incongruous, irrational, laughable, loony, ludicrous, nonsensical, nutty, off the wall, preposterous, sappy*, screwy*, silly, stupid, unreasonable, wacky, campy, dippy, fooling around, for grins, freaky, gagged up, jokey, joshing, tomfool |
| Antonyms: | certain, logical, rational, reasonable, sensible, wise |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | comic/comical |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | amusing |
| Synonyms: | Mickey Mouse, absurd, batty, boffo, camp*, comical, crazy, dippy, diverting, dizzy, droll, entertaining, facetious, farcical, flaky*, fool, foolheaded, for grins, freaky, funny, gelastic, goofus, goofy, gump, horse's tail, humorous, ironic, jerky, jocular, joking, joshing, laughable, light, loony, ludicrous, nutty, off the wall, priceless, ridiculous, risible, schtick, screwy, side-splitting, silly, wacky, waggish, whimsical, witty |
| Antonyms: | sad, serious, sober, solemn, tragic, unfunny |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | daffy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | silly, crazy |
| Synonyms: | daft, demented, deranged, dotty, foolish, nuts, nutty*, clownish, crackers, goofy loony* |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | daft |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | stupid; crazy |
| Synonyms: | absurd, asinine, bedlamite, bonkers, cracked*, crackers, daffy*, demented, deranged, dopey*, flaky*, foolish, fried*, giddy, half-baked*, idiotic, in the ozone, inane, insane, lunatic, mad, mental*, nuts, nutty*, off the wall, out of one's gourd, ridiculous, screwy*, silly, simple, touched, unbalanced, unhinged*, unsound, wacky, whacko, witless |
| Antonyms: | brainy, bright, intelligent, smart, understanding |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | dotty |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | crazy |
| Synonyms: | absurd, daft, demented, disturbed, eccentric, foolish, goofy*, loony*, nuts*, nutty, odd, peculiar, queer, ridiculous, strange, twisted, unconventional, weird, mentally unbalanced |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | eccentric |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | bizarre, unusual |
| Synonyms: | aberrant, abnormal, anomalous, beat*, bent*, bizarre, capricious, characteristic, cockeyed, crazy, curious, droll, erratic, far out, flaky, freak, freakish, funky*, funny, idiosyncratic, irregular, nutty, odd, oddball, off the wall, off-center, offbeat, outlandish, peculiar, quaint, queer, quirky, quizzical, singular, strange, uncommon, unconventional, unnatural, way out, weird, whimsical, wild, kooky, out in left field |
| Antonyms: | boring, common, dull, normal, ordinary, plain, regular, standard, unexciting, usual |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | enthusiastic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | interested, excited |
| Synonyms: | agog, animated, anxious, ardent, avid, concerned, crazy about*, devoted, eager, earnest, ebullient, exhilarated, exuberant, fanatical, fascinated, fervent, fervid, forceful, gung ho*, hearty, intent, keen, lively, nutty*, obsessed, passionate, pleased, rabid, red-hot*, rhapsodic, spirited, thrilled, unqualified, vehement, vigorous, wacky*, warm, wholehearted, willing, zealous, athirst, attracted, bugged, dying to, gaga, gone on, keyed up, tantalized, titillated |
| Antonyms: | apathetic, disinterested, doubting, indifferent, lethargic, pessimistic, unenthusiastic, weary, unexcited |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | flaky |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | eccentric |
| Synonyms: | crazy, goofy*, haywire, nutty, odd, peculiar, queer, screwy, unconventional, wacky, birdy, half-cracked |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | foolish |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | nonsensical, idiotic |
| Synonyms: | absurd, asinine, brainless, crazy, daffy*, daft, dotty*, fantastic, fatuous, feebleminded*, half-baked*, half-witted*, harebrained*, ill-advised, imprudent, incautious, indiscreet, injudicious, insane, irrational, jerky*, loony*, ludicrous, lunatic, mad, moronic, nutty*, preposterous, ridiculous, senseless, short-sighted, silly, simple, stupid, unintelligent, unreasonable, unwise, wacky*, weak, witless, zany*, cockamamy, dippy, doltish, ill-considered, imbecilic, kooky, nerdy |
| Antonyms: | careful, cautious, circumspect, prudent, sensible, serious, thoughtful, wise, unfoolish |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | goofy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | silly |
| Synonyms: | crazy, daffy*, dopey, dotty, empty-headed*, flaky*, foolish, idiotic, nutty*, screwy, stupid, wacky*, weird, dippy, ditzy, kooky |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | illogical |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | not making sense |
| Synonyms: | absurd, cockeyed*, fallacious, false, fatuous, faulty, groundless, hollow, implausible, inconclusive, incongruous, inconsistent, incorrect, invalid, irrational, irrelevant, mad, meaningless, nutty*, off the wall, preposterous, screwy*, senseless, specious, spurious, unconnected, unreasonable, unscientific, unsound, unsubstantial, untenable, wacky, casuistic, inconsequent, not following, self-contradictory, sophistic, sophistical, unproved, without basis, without foundation |
| Antonyms: | correct, logical, meaningful, rational, reasonable, right, sensible |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | insane |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | mentally ill; foolish |
| Synonyms: | batty*, bizarre, cracked*, crazed, crazy, cuckoo*, daft, demented, derailed, deranged, fatuous, frenzied, idiotic, impractical, irrational, irresponsible, loony*, lunatic, mad, maniacal, mental, moonstruck, nuts*, nutty*, of unsound mind, off one's rocker, out of one's mind, paranoid, preposterous, psychopathic, psychotic, rabid, raging, raving, schizophrenic, screwy, senseless, touched, unhinged, unsettled, wild |
| Notes: | inane means silly, lacking significance or insubstantial; insane means mentally deranged, mad or very foolish |
| Antonyms: | balanced, healthy, rational, reasonable, sane, sound, well |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | irrational |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | illogical, senseless |
| Synonyms: | aberrant, absurd, brainless, crazy, delirious, demented, disconnected, disjointed, distraught, fallacious, flaky*, foolish, incoherent, injudicious, insane, invalid, loony*, mad, mindless, nonsensical, nutty*, preposterous, raving, ridiculous, silly, specious, stupid, unreasonable, unsound, unstable, unthinking, unwise, wacky*, wild, wrong, cockamamie, freaky, kooky, off-the-wall, reasonless, sophistic, unreasoning |
| Antonyms: | logical, rational, reasonable, reflective, sensible, sound, stable |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | jovial |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | happy |
| Synonyms: | affable, airy, amiable, animated, blithe, buoyant, cheery, chipper, companionable, convivial, cordial, daffy*, delightful, dizzy*, enjoyable, facetious, festive, gay, glad, gleeful, good-natured, hilarious, humorous, jocose, jocund, jolly, jubilant, lighthearted, loony, merry, mirthful, nutty*, pleasant, sociable, bantering, blithesome, bouncy, chaffing, chirpy, conversable, festal, jokey, jollying, joshing, larking, lots of laughs, off-the-wall |
| Antonyms: | sad, unhappy |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | loony |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | crazy |
| Synonyms: | ape, barmy, batty, berserk, bonkers*, cracked, crazed, cuckoo, daffy*, daft, delirious, demented, deranged, flaky, flipped out, insane, kooky, lunatic, mad, maniacal, mental*, nuts, nutty, out of one's mind, out to lunch, psycho, screwball*, screwy*, silly, touched*, unbalanced, wacky |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | lunatic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | crazy, mad |
| Synonyms: | absurd, baked*, balmy*, bonkers*, cracked, crazed, daft, demented, deranged, flaky*, foolish, fried*, idiotic, insane, irrational, maniac, maniacal, nonsensical, nutty*, preposterous, psychotic, screwy*, stupid, unsound, zany, bananas, dippy, flipped out, freaked out, kooky, loco, psyched out, schizoid, whacko |
| Antonyms: | healthy, sane, sensible |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | manic/maniacal |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | overexcited, crazy |
| Synonyms: | berserk, crazed, demented, deranged, excited, frenzied, high*, insane, lunatic, mad, nutty*, psychotic, rabid, raving, unbalanced, up*, wild, flipped, flipped out, freaked out, freaky, turned-out |
| Antonyms: | balanced, calm, sane |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | rabid |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | very angry; maniacal |
| Synonyms: | berserk, bigoted, bitten, crazed*, crazy, delirious, deranged, enthusiastic, extreme, extremist, fanatical, fervent, frantic, frenetic, frenzied, furious, hot*, infuriated, insane, intemperate, intolerant, irrational, keen, mad, narrow-minded, nutty*, obsessed, poisoned, radical, raging, revolutionary, sick*, ultra, violent, virulent, wild, zealous, corybantic, flipped, foaming at the mouth, freaked out, mad-dog, overboard, sizzling, smoking, steamed up, ultraist |
| Antonyms: | delighted, happy, pleased |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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