Thesaurus:insane
English
Synonyms
- batcrap (vulgar)
- batshit (vulgar)
- bread baskets (British)
- cray (slang)
- cray-cray (slang)
- doolally (British)
- fucked up (vulgar)
- mentally disturbed
- meshigener (Polari)
- nucking futs (slang, humorous, mildy offensive, euphemistic)
- ripshit (vulgar)
- yampy (British)
Idioms
- a half bubble off plumb
- doesn't have both oars in the water
- losing one's marbles
- nobody home (often accompanied with the gesture of a finger tapping a head)
- no longer in possession of one's faculties
- not running on all cylinders
- off one's box (British)
- off one's head (British)
- off one's nut (British)
- off one's trolley (British)
- off the planet (Australia)
- stark staring bonkers
- the cheese slid off one's cracker
- wired wrong
Further reading
- “503. insanity” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
- “insane” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.
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