Another word for insane
a-z
Adjective
Afflicted with or exhibiting irrationality and mental unsoundness
So senseless as to be laughable
- Eccentric or irrational:
- Crazy; silly:
- Excessively sentimental; mawkish.
- Silly or foolish.
- Full of sap.
- Characterized by jerks or jerking:
- Foolish; silly:
- Dazed or lethargic, as if drugged.
- Stupid; doltish:
- Silly; foolish:
- Not sensible; foolish.
- Having the quality or fragrance of balm; soothing.
- Mild and pleasant:
- Eccentric in behavior.
- Consisting of or having many loops:
- Crazy or eccentric:
- Offbeat or bizarre:
- Extremely foolish or silly.
- Mentally deranged; crazy.
- A foolish or crazy person.
- Mentally deranged.
- Possessed by enthusiasm or excitement:
- Immoderately fond; infatuated:
- Foolish; ridiculous; absurd:
- Askew; crooked.
- Intoxicated; drunk.
- Comical or ludicrous because of incongruity or strangeness.
- A comical person given to extravagant or outlandish behavior.
- A ludicrous, buffoonish character in old comedies who attempts feebly to mimic the tricks of the clown.
- Not of this earth; preternatural; supernatural.
- Unnaturally strange and frightening.
- Ridiculously unreasonable or uncustomary; absurd:
- A stupid or foolish person.
- Extremely foolish or stupid.
- Lacking judgment, realism, or firmness.
- Having or exhibiting a lack of good judgment or common sense; foolish.
- Lacking seriousness or responsibleness; frivolous:
- Semiconscious; dazed:
- Contrary to nature, reason, or common sense; absurd.
- Lacking intelligible meaning:
- Foolish; absurd:
- Showing foolishness or stupidity.
- Exhibiting mild intellectual disability. The term belongs to a classification system no longer in use and is now considered offensive.
- Angry; resentful:
- Mentally deranged:
- Characteristic of mental derangement:
- A person who is affected by lunacy; a mentally deranged person.
- A very foolish person.
- Affected by lunacy; mentally deranged.
- Showing foolishness or stupidity.
- Exhibiting profound mental retardation. The term belongs to a classification system no longer in use and is now considered offensive.
- Having or showing little sense; foolish:
- Lacking or exhibiting a lack of good sense or judgment; silly:
- Capable of arousing laughter; absurd or ridiculous:
- Embarrassed; abashed:
- Extremely unreasonable, incongruous, or inappropriate:
- Impossible to take seriously; silly:
- Of, relating to, or manifesting the view that there is no order or meaning in human life or in the universe.
© Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus Copyright © 2010 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio. Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Another word for insane
Modifier
Deranged
Utterly foolish
- Showing foolishness or stupidity.
- Exhibiting profound mental retardation. The term belongs to a classification system no longer in use and is now considered offensive.
- Crazy; deranged.
- Foolish; stupid.
- Frolicsome.
- Behaving or acting impulsively or rashly; wild.
See also:
© WEBSTER’S NEW WORLD® ROGET’S A-Z THESAURUS by Charlton Laird and the editors of Webster’s New World dictionaries. Copyright © 1999 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.