Thesaurus:mental hospital

Thesaurus

mental hospital

English

Noun

Sense: A facility designed to house people with mental disorders

Synonyms

• bedlam (obsolete)
• bin (slang)
• booby-hatch (slang, derogatory)
• booby house (slang, derogatory)
• bughouse (slang, derogatory)
• crazy house (derogatory)
• cuckoo's nest (slang)
• funny farm (slang)
• happy hotel (euphemism, derogatory)
• insane asylum (dated)
• laughing academy (slang, euphemism, derogatory)
• loony bin (slang)
• lunatic asylum    [⇒ thesaurus] (dated, offensive)
• madhouse (obsolete)
• mental asylum (dated)
• mental home
• grippy sock vacation
• mental health center
• mental health hospital
• mental hospital
• mental institution
• nutfarm (offensive)
• nuthouse (offensive)
• psychiatric hospital
• psychopathic hospital
• psychiatric ward
• psych ward
• special hospital (euphemism)
• whack shack (slang)

Hypernyms

• building    [⇒ thesaurus]
• hospital

Coordinate terms

• asylum
• prison    [⇒ thesaurus]

Metonyms

• bedlam

See also

• Thesaurus:mad person

Further reading

• “503. insanity” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
• “mental hospital” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.