Word Meanings - INSANE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
1. Exhibiting unsoundness or disorded of mind; not sane; mad; deranged in mind; delirious; distracted. See Insanity, 2. 2. Used by, or appropriated to, insane persons; as, an insane hospital. 3. Causing insanity or madness. Or have we eaten on
Additional info about word: INSANE
1. Exhibiting unsoundness or disorded of mind; not sane; mad; deranged in mind; delirious; distracted. See Insanity, 2. 2. Used by, or appropriated to, insane persons; as, an insane hospital. 3. Causing insanity or madness. Or have we eaten on the insaneroot That takes the reason prisoner Shak. 4. Characterized by insanity or the utmost folly; chimerical; unpractical; as, an insane plan, attempt, etc. I know not which was the insane measure. Southey.
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of INSANE)
- Crazy
- Idiotic
- broken-down
- mad
- crazed
- crack-brained
- lunatic
- demented
- daft
- insane
- aberrant
- Mad
- Insane
- furious
- infuriated
- crazy
- maniacal
- frantic
- rabid
- wild
- distracted
Related words: (words related to INSANE)
- DISTRACTION
1. The act of distracting; a drawing apart; separation. To create distractions among us. Bp. Burnet. 2. That which diverts attention; a diversion. "Domestic distractions." G. Eliot. 3. A diversity of direction; detachment. His power went out in - DISTRACTED
Mentally disordered; unsettled; mad. My distracted mind. Pope. - CRACK-BRAINED
Having an impaired intellect; whimsical; crazy. Pope. - RABIDLY
In a rabid manner; with extreme violence. - DEMENTED
Insane; mad; of unsound mind. -- De*ment"ed*ness, n. - CRAZE-MILL; CRAZING-MILL
A mill for grinding tin ore. - IDIOTICON
A dictionary of a peculiar dialect, or of the words and phrases peculiar to one part of a country; a glossary. - INSANENESS
Insanity; madness. - DISTRACTFUL
Distracting. Heywood. - FURIOUS
1. Transported with passion or fury; raging; violent; as, a furious animal. 2. Rushing with impetuosity; moving with violence; as, a furious stream; a furious wind or storm. Syn. -- Impetuous; vehement; boisterous; fierce; turbulent; tumultuous; - INSANE
1. Exhibiting unsoundness or disorded of mind; not sane; mad; deranged in mind; delirious; distracted. See Insanity, 2. 2. Used by, or appropriated to, insane persons; as, an insane hospital. 3. Causing insanity or madness. Or have we eaten on - FRANTIC
Mad; raving; furious; violent; wild and disorderly; distracted. Die, frantic wretch, for this accursed deed! Shak. Torrents of frantic abuse. Macaulay. -- Fran"tic*al*ly, adv. -- Fran"tic*ly, adv. Shak. -- Fran"tic*ness, n. Johnson. - INFURIATED
Enraged; furious. - DISTRACTIOUS
Distractive. - CRAZINESS
1. The state of being broken down or weakened; as, the craziness of a ship, or of the limbs. 2. The state of being broken in mind; imbecility or weakness of intellect; derangement. - DISTRACTEDNESS
A state of being distracted; distraction. Bp. Hall. - RABIDNESS
The quality or state of being rabid. - DEMENTATE
Deprived of reason. Arise, thou dementate sinner! Hammond. - ABERRANT
Deviating from the ordinary or natural type; exceptional; abnormal. The more aberrant any form is, the greater must have been the number of connecting forms which, on my theory, have been exterminated. Darwin. (more info) 1. Wandering; straying - RABID
1. Furious; raging; extremely violent. The rabid flight Of winds that ruin ships. Chapman. 2. Extreme, unreasonable, or fanatical in opinion; excessively zealous; as, a rabid socialist. 3. Affected with the distemper called rabies; mad; as, a rabid - DECIDEMENT
Means of forming a decision. Beau. & Fl. - DIPSOMANIACAL
Of or pertaining to dipsomania. - DEGRADEMENT
Deprivation of rank or office; degradation. Milton. - ACRASE; ACRAZE
1. To craze. Grafton. 2. To impair; to destroy. Hacket.