insane
Adjective
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Afflicted with or characteristic of mental derangement (synset 302081496)
"was declared insane"; "insane laughter"also:
- irrational - not consistent with or using reason
- unreasonable - not reasonable; not showing good judgment
similar to:- around the bend, balmy, barmy, bats, batty, bonkers, buggy, cracked, crackers, daft, dotty, fruity, haywire, kookie, kooky, loco, loony, loopy, nuts, nutty, round the bend, wacky, whacky - informal or slang terms for mentally irregular
- 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
- maniac, maniacal - 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; in law, not competent to go to trial
- paranoid - suffering from paranoia
- psychopathic, psychopathologic, psychopathological - suffering from an undiagnosed mental disorder
- psychotic - characteristic of or suffering from psychosis
- raving mad, wild - talking or behaving irrationally
- schizophrenic - suffering from some form of schizophrenia
- screw-loose, screwy - not behaving normally
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Very foolish (synset 302582476)
"harebrained ideas"; "took insane risks behind the wheel"; "a completely mad scheme to build a bridge between two mountains"similar to: foolish - devoid of good sense or judgmentsame as: harebrained, mad
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