- balmy, barmy, bats, batty, bonkers, buggy, cracked, crackers, daft, dotty, fruity, haywire, kooky, kookie, loco, loony, loopy, nuts, nutty, round the bend, around the bend, wacky, whacky - informal or slang terms for mentally irregular; "it used to drive my husband balmy"
Antonym: sane (indirect, via insane)
- nut - usually large hard-shelled seed
--1 is a kind of seed
--1 has particulars:edible nut; cembra nut, cedar nut; kola nut, cola nut; mast; palm nut, palm kernel; nutlet Derived form: verb nut1 - Nut - Egyptian goddess of the sky
--2 is a kind of Egyptian deity
- nut - a small (usually square or hexagonal) metal block with internal screw thread to be fitted onto a bolt
--3 is a kind of block
--3 is a part of nut and bolt
--3 has particulars:hex nut; locknut, safety nut; square nut; stuffing nut, packing nut; wing nut, wing-nut, wing screw, butterfly nut, thumbnut - en, nut - half the width of an em
--4 is a kind of linear unit
--4 is a part of em, pica em, pica- crackpot, crank, nut, nut case, nutcase, fruitcake, screwball - a whimsically eccentric person
--5 is a kind of eccentric, eccentric person, flake, oddball, geek
- addict, nut, freak, junkie, junky - someone who is so ardently devoted to something that it resembles an addiction; "a golf addict"; "a car nut"; "a news junkie"
--6 is a kind of enthusiast, partisan, partizan
--6 has particulars: gym rat- testis, testicle, orchis, ball, ballock, bollock, nut, egg - one of the two male reproductive glands that produce spermatozoa and secrete androgens; "she kicked him in the balls and got away"
--7 is a kind of male reproductive gland; gonad, sex gland
--7 is a part of
--7 has parts:male reproductive system; male genitalia, male genitals, male genital organ, family jewels
--7 has particulars: cobblers; undescended testis, undescended testicletesticular artery, internal spermatic artery, arteria testicularis; testicular vein, vena testicularis; seminiferous tubule; epididymis; rete testis; vas deferens, ductus deferens; spermatic cord - nut - a small (usually square or hexagonal) metal block with internal screw thread to be fitted onto a bolt
- nut - gather nuts
--1 is one way to gather, garner, collect, pull together
Sample sentence:Derived form: noun nut1
In the summer they like to go out and nut