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.