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What is the adjective for nuts?

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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verbs nut and nutcrack which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

nutty
  1. Containing nuts.
  2. Resembling or characteristic of nuts.
  3. Barmy, crazy, mad.
  4. (Britain, dated) Extravagantly fashionable
  5. Synonyms:
  6. Examples:
    1. “He remembered a rather nutty old man at the hospital who believed that spiders came as messengers, and if they appeared, one had to pay attention.”
      “Many viewers were utterly fascinated by Giorgio's nutty theory about ancient aliens building the pyramids.”
      “But Bomar, who was nutty about cars, was just as critical of Fidel, who prided himself on his own expertise when it came to automobiles.”
nutless
  1. Without nuts (the fruit).
  2. Without the use of nuts (the mechanical fastener).
  3. (vulgar, slang) Without nuts (testicles); cowardly or castrated.
nuts
  1. (colloquial) Insane, mad.
  2. (colloquial, figuratively) Crazy, mad; unusually pleased or, alternatively, angered.
  3. Synonyms:
  4. Examples:
    1. “I did exactly the thing that used to drive me nuts when I worked in Retail.”
      “He is nuts about collecting vintage records.”
nutbrown
  1. Of a dark brown color, like that of ripe nuts.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “At first, during the autumn days, she had used it for a scamper through the nutbrown woods.”
      “A snow-white moustache and imperial made his nutbrown complexion appear darker than it really was.”
      “Sir knight and comrade, hither comes one, no nutbrown maid is she, but the fairest of all fair women in this world.”
nutlike
  1. Resembling a nut
  2. Examples:
    1. “A round, very hot chile, cascabels are less common than other dried chiles but have a delicious nutlike flavor when toasted.”
      “It is a medium fat, firm interior ripened cheese with a mild nutlike flavour and naturally formed holes.”
      “The large, nutlike seeds found between the scales of the cones are no delicacy, being starchy and bland, but provide a useful food to many peoples.”
nuttier
  1. comparative form of nutty: more nutty
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “High-frequency traders who make markets can easily pass on costs by widening bid-ask spreads. Implementation is nuttier still.”
      “The pursuit of eating raw food has become a religion of the nuttier kind.”
      “If the Government has any sense of fun, it should come up with nuttier schemes, just for a laugh, to see Labour desperately agree with it.”
nuttiest
  1. superlative form of nutty: most nutty
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Take the role of Ginger, who seeks master chef training with the nuttiest restaurateurs in town.”
      “The number of GoPro videos on the internet has risen exponentially in recent times, but could this be the nuttiest one yet.”
      “Just because a statute is ambiguous doesn't mean an agency can pick the nuttiest interpretation out there.”
nutted
  1. simple past tense and past participle of nut
nutting
  1. present participle of nut
  2. Gathering nuts. (Often as in "to go a-nutting" or "to go nutting".)
  3. (rare) Gaining favor or subjugating oneself.
  4. (Australia, New Zealand, slang) Thinking very hard or puzzling over something.
nutcracking
  1. present participle of nutcrack
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