English > insane: 2 senses > adjective 1Meaning | Afflicted with or characteristic of mental derangement. |
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Examples | - "was declared insane"
- "insane laughter"
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Narrower | balmy, barmy, bats, batty, bonkers, buggy, cracked, crackers, daft, dotty, fruity, haywire, kooky, kookie, loco, loony, loopy, nuts, nutty, round the bend, around the bend, wacky, whacky | informal or slang terms for mentally irregular |
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brainsick, crazy, demented, disturbed, mad, sick, unbalanced, unhinged | affected with madness or insanity |
certifiable, certified | fit to be certified as insane (and treated accordingly) |
crackbrained, idiotic | insanely irresponsible |
crazed, deranged, half-crazed | Driven insane |
fey, touched | slightly insane |
hebephrenic | Suffering from a form of schizophrenia characterized by foolish mannerisms and senseless laughter along with delusions and regressive behavior |
lunatic, moonstruck | insane and believed to be affected by the phases of the moon |
maniacal, maniac | wildly / wildly disordered |
manic-depressive | Suffering from a disorder characterized by alternating mania and depression |
maniclike | resembling the mania of manic-depressive illness |
mentally ill, unsound, unstable | Suffering from severe mental illness |
non compos mentis, of unsound mind | not of sound mind, memory, or understanding |
paranoid | Suffering from paranoia |
psychopathic, psychopathologic, psychopathological | Suffering from an undiagnosed mental disorder |
psychotic | Characteristic of or suffering from psychosis |
raving mad, wild | talking / talking / talking or behaving irrationally |
schizophrenic | Suffering from some form of schizophrenia |
screw-loose, screwy | not behaving normally |
See also | abnormal, unnatural | not normal |
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irrational | not consistent with or using reason |
unreasonable | not reasonable |
Opposite | sane | mentally healthy |
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Spanish | demente |
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Nouns | insaneness | obsolete terms for legal insanity |
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insanity | relatively permanent / permanent disorder of the mind |
Adverbs | insanely | in an insane manner |
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