Wikisaurus:insane
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[edit] English
[edit] Adjective
[edit] Sense: exhibiting unsoundness or disorder of mind
[edit] Synonyms
- insane
- mad
- mentally disturbed
- psychotic
- bananas
- barking
- barking mad
- barmy
- bats
- batty
- bonkers
- bread baskets (UK)
- cook [WS]
- crackers
- crazed
- crazy
- cuckoo
- demented
- doolally (British)
- dotty
- eccentric
- fruit loops
- fucked up
- hatstand
- harebrained
- loony
- loopy
- lunatic
- mental
- nucking futs
- nuts
- nutso
- nutty
- potty
- screwy
- squirrelly
- whacko
- weird
- batshit (taboo)
[edit] Idioms
- away with the fairies
- off one's head (British)
- off one's nut (British)
- off one's rocker
- off one's trolley (British)
- off the planet (Australia)
- out of one's head
- out of one's skull
- nobody home (often accompanied with the gesture of a finger tapping a head)
- no longer in possession of one's faculties
- not playing with a full deck
- not running on all cylinders
- round the bend
- round the twist
- stark raving mad
- stark staring bonkers
- three fries short of a Happy Meal
- wired wrong
[edit] Verbs "be insane"
To be moved to a dedicated sense.
- have a few kangaroos loose in the top paddock (Australia)
- have a screw loose
- have bats in one's belfry
- have bats in the belfry
- have squirrels in one's attic
- have toys in the attic
[edit] Similes
[edit] See also
[edit] External links
- Wiktionary:Roget Thesaurus Classification
- “insane” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.
