Sekirov Dictionary

nutso

/ˈnʌt.soʊ/

adjective 4
adverb 2
noun 2
forms 3

adjective4

•
(informal) Crazy, insane.
- "You wanted a report, so here's a full report: crazy, nutso, raisins short of a fruitcake, rubber walls, screaming-mad basket-cases." — 2000
•
(informal) Ridiculous; unbelievable or silly.
- Trust me, we both can find fringe fanatics to prove the other side is nutso. So let's stop with this stereotypical silliness. — 2008
•
(informal) Obsessed; overly enthusiastic.
- Even the most nutso fisherman would think twice about going out on the lake today. — 2001
•
(informal) Fraught or out of control.
- How being taught to not cut corners, even in a nutso emergency room shift, meant I checked all regions in Mary below the waist and didn't just tell her I thought it was probably gas. — 2005

adverb2

•
(informal) In a crazy manner.
- In there was Captain Ed Cutler, whom every man and woman in Maggie's old command had once seen run nutso in Valhalla. — 2014
•
(informal) Madly; extremely or obsessively.
- I'm completely, utterly, nutso in love with that man! — 2012

noun2

•
(informal) A crazy person; a crackpot or lunatic.
- Sadly, at the end of his life, Luther became somewhat of a nutso. — 2012
•
(informal) Craziness; insanity.
- I wrote a letter to the Guild Newsletter apologizing for having disrupted the show, pleading temporary nutso. — 2012

forms

nutsos · more nutso · most nutso

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