Thesaurus:insane
English edit
Adjective edit
Sense: exhibiting unsoundness or disorder of mind edit
Synonyms edit
Nonvulgar or expurgated edit
- 5150 (US slang)
- bananas
- barking
- barking mad
- buggy (slang)
- bughouse (slang)
- barmy
- batchy (British)
- batpoop
- bats
- batty
- bonkers
- bread baskets (British)
- cracked
- crackers
- cra-cra (slang)
- cray (slang)
- cray-cray (slang)
- crazed
- crazy
- crazy as a bedbug
- crazy as a cootie
- crazy as a cootie bug
- crazy as a pet coon
- cuckoo
- daft
- demented
- deranged
- disturbed
- doolally (British)
- dotty
- eccentric [⇒ thesaurus]
- fruit loops
- gaga
- hatstand
- harebrained
- insane
- kooky
- loco
- loony
- loony tunes
- loopy
- lunatic
- mad
- mental
- mentally ill
- meshigener (Polari)
- meshugge
- non compos mentis (legal, learned)
- nonsane
- nucking futs (slang, humorous, mildy offensive, euphemistic)
- nutballs
- nuts
- nutso
- nutty
- off the beam
- off the chain
- over the edge
- potty
- psycho
- psychoceramic
- psychotic
- screwy
- squirrelly
- starkers (British)
- tonto (chiefly British)
- unbalanced
- unsane
- wackadoodle
- weird
- whacko
- wode
- yampy (British)
- zany (now euphemistic)
Vulgar edit
Hyponyms edit
Idioms edit
- a kangaroo loose in the top paddock
- a half bubble off plumb
- a few clowns short of a circus
- a few fries short of a Happy Meal
- a few spanners short of a tool box
- away with the fairies
- crazy as a shithouse rat
- cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs
- driving on three wheels
- few cards short of a full deck
- few cards shy of a full deck
- few sandwiches short of a picnic
- few X short of a Y
- have a geranium in the cranium
- have a screw loose
- have bats in one's belfry
- have static in the attic
- have strudel in the noodle
- his driveway doesn't go all the way to the road
- insane in the membrane
- losing marbles
- nobody home (often accompanied with the gesture of a finger tapping a head)
- no longer in possession of one's faculties
- not all there
- not have both oars in the water
- not playing with a full deck
- not running on all cylinders
- not right in the head
- off one's box (Britain)
- off one's chump
- off one's head (Britain)
- off one's hinges
- off one's nut (Britain)
- off one's rocker
- off one's tree
- off one's trolley (Britain)
- off the deep end
- off the planet (Australia)
- off the rails
- one brick short of a full load
- one card shy of a full deck
- one fry short of a Happy Meal
- out of one's box
- out of one's gourd
- out of one's head
- out of one's cotton-picking mind
- out of one's mind
- out of one's skull
- out of one's tree
- out of one's wits
- out there
- round the bend
- round the twist
- stark raving mad
- stark staring mad
- stark staring bonkers
- the cheese has slid off one's cracker
- three fries short of a Happy Meal
- three stops short of Dagenham (Britain, slang, humorous)
- touched in the head
- wired wrong
Similes edit
Antonyms edit
Coordinate terms edit
See also edit
- Appendix:Snowclones/few X short of a Y
- Thesaurus:mad person
- Thesaurus:insanity
- Thesaurus:rave
- Thesaurus:becraze
- Thesaurus:stupid
- Thesaurus:wild
Further reading edit
- “503. insanity” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
- “insane” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.