Outlandish vs Nutty - What's the difference?

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Outlandish is a related term of nutty.

As adjectives the difference between outlandish and nutty

is that outlandish is bizarre, strange while nutty is containing nuts.

outlandish

English

Adjective

(en adjective)

bizarre, strange

:The rock star wore black with outlandish pink and green spiked hair.

(archaic) foreign, alien

Synonyms

* See also

References

nutty

English

Adjective

(er)

Containing nuts

Reminiscent of nuts

* 1997 , Mary Jo Plutt, Prevention's Stop Dieting and Lose Weight Cookbook , Rodale, ISBN 0875964699, p. 210:

Brown rice has had only its outer hull removed, leaving it with a beige color and a a pleasantly nutty flavor.

Barmy, crazy, mad.

Usage notes

In sense “insane”, similar to nuts, but more limited and somewhat milder: nutty means “eccentric, insane”, while “nuts” can mean either “insane” or “enthused, agitated” (“the crowd went nuts”), for which “nutty” is not used: *“the crowd went nutty”.

Synonyms

* nuts, squirrelly * See also