Definition of NUTTY

nutty

Adjective Satellite

  • having the flavor of nuts
    • "a nutty sherry"
  • informal or slang terms for mentally irregular

Adj

  • Containing nuts.
  • Resembling or characteristic of nuts.
  • Barmy: eccentric, odd; crazy, mad, insane.
  • Extravagantly fashionable.

Adjective

  • Silly, crazy, or having a flavor like nuts.

Examples

  • It was a NUTTY idea to save all the vowels, but it somehow worked for her.
  • That student's parents seem to be nutty as a fruitcake.
  • This is a nutty chocolate bar.

Origin / Etymology

From nut + -y.

Synonyms

around the bend, balmy, barmy, bats, batty, bonkers, buggy, cracked, crackers, daft, dotty, fruity, haywire, kookie, kooky, loco, loony, loopy, nutlike, nuts, round the bend, wacky, whacky, ;, nutlike#Adjective, nuttish, squirrelly

Scrabble Score: 8

nutty: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Word
nutty: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
nutty: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 9

nutty: valid Words With Friends Word