Wikisaurus:insane
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English [edit]
Adjective [edit]
Sense: exhibiting unsoundness or disorder of mind [edit]
Synonyms [edit]
- insane
- bananas
- barking
- barking mad
- barmy
- batcrap (taboo)
- batpoop (taboo)
- bats
- batshit (taboo)
- batty
- bonkers
- bread baskets (UK)
- cook [WS]
- cracked
- crackers
- cray-cray (slang)
- crazed
- crazy
- cuckoo
- demented
- doolally (British)
- dotty
- eccentric
- fruit loops
- fucked up (taboo)
- hatstand
- harebrained
- kooky
- loony
- loony tunes
- loopy
- lunatic
- mad
- mental
- mentally disturbed
- non compos mentis
- nucking futs (taboo)
- nuts
- nutso
- nutty
- potty
- psycho
- psychotic
- screwy
- squirrelly
- whacko
- weird
Idioms [edit]
- away with the fairies
- doesn't have both oars in the water
- 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
- not right in the head
- off one's head (British)
- off one's nut (British)
- off one's rocker
- off one's trolley (British)
- off the deep end
- off the planet (Australia)
- out of one's gourd
- out of one's head
- out of one's skull
- out there
- round the bend
- round the twist
- stark raving mad
- stark staring bonkers
- three fries short of a Happy Meal
- touched in the head
- wired wrong
Verbs "be insane" [edit]
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
- lose it
- lose one's marbles
- lose one's mind
Similes [edit]
See also [edit]
External links [edit]
- Wiktionary:Roget Thesaurus Classification
- “insane” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.
