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fruity

  (frū') pronunciation
adj., -i·er, -i·est.
  1. Of, containing, or relating to fruit.
  2. Tasting or smelling richly of or as if of fruit: “My nose filled with the smells of leather, polish, wax—the fat, fruity smell of rich car” (Anthony Hyde).
  3. Excessively sentimental or sweet.
  4. Slang. Crazy; eccentric.
  5. Offensive Slang. Homosexual.
fruitiness fruit'i·ness n.
 
 
Thesaurus: fruity

adjective

    Afflicted with or exhibiting irrationality and mental unsoundness: brainsick, crazy, daft, demented, disordered, distraught, dotty, insane, lunatic, mad, maniac, maniacal, mentally ill, moonstruck, off, touched, unbalanced, unsound, wrong. Informal bonkers, cracked, daffy, gaga, loony. Slang bananas, batty, buggy, cuckoo, loco, nuts, nutty, screwy, wacky. Chiefly British crackers. Law non compos mentis. Idioms: around the bend, crazy as a loon, mad as a hatter, not all there, nutty as a fruitcake, offout ofone's head, off one's rocker, of unsound mind, out of one's mind, sick in the head, stark raving mad. See sane/insane.

 
WordNet: fruity
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The adjective has 2 meanings:

Meaning #1: tasting or smelling richly of or as of fruit

Meaning #2: informal or slang terms for mentally irregular
  Synonyms: balmy, barmy, bats, batty, bonkers, buggy, cracked, crackers, daft, dotty, haywire, kooky, kookie, loco, loony, loopy, nuts, nutty, round the bend, around the bend, wacky, whacky


 
Translations: Translations for: Fruity

Dansk (Danish)
adj. - frugt-, med frugtsmag, velklingende, pikant

Nederlands (Dutch)
fruitig, effectief, leuk, oversentimenteel, diep (stem), idioot, homoseksueel (negatief), suggestief

Français (French)
adj. - fruité, salé, dingue, timbré (une voix), (US) dingue, salé (une plaisanterie)

Deutsch (German)
adj. - fruchtig, volltönend, saftig

Ελληνική (Greek)
adj. - σκαμπρόζικος, (για φωνή) ζεστός
n. - αδελφή, τοιούτος

Italiano (Italian)
fruttato, profondo, piccante

Português (Portuguese)
adj. - com sabor de fruta, picante (sexual)

Русский (Russian)
фруктовый, пикантный, смачное (выражение), психованный

Español (Spanish)
adj. - con olor o sabor a fruta, sabroso, sonoro, picante (cuento, chiste)

Svenska (Swedish)
adj. - fruktliknande, saftig, pikant, klangfull (röst)

中文(简体) (Chinese (Simplified))
水果的, 圆润的, 有水果香味的

中文(繁體) (Chinese (Traditional))
adj. - 水果的, 圓潤的, 有水果香味的

한국어 (Korean)
adj. - 과일 비슷한, 과일 맛의, 달콤한

日本語 (Japanese)
adj. - 果物の味のする, 豊かな, 猥褻な

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(صفه) فاكهي , قوي النكهه‏

עברית (Hebrew)
adj. - ‮כמו פירות, עסיסי, של פירות‬


 
 

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