| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | insane |
| Synonyms: | bonkers*, brainsick, crackers, crazy, crazy as a loon, cuckoo, daft, demented, deranged, distraught, disturbed, dotty, kooky, loco, lunatic, mad, mad as a hatter, maniac, maniacal, mentally ill, moonstruck, not all there, nuts, nutty as a fruitcake, off one's rocker, out of one's mind, out to lunch, psycho, sick, sick in the head, stark raving mad, touched*, unbalanced, unhinged, unsound, wacky |
| Main Entry: | comic |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | funny person, often professional |
| Synonyms: | banana, buffoon*, card*, clown, comedian, droll, funnyman, humorist, jester, joker, jokester, life of the party, million laughs, quipster, stand-up comic, stooge, top banana, wag, wit* |
| Notes: | comic means 'intended to be funny' while comical is 'funny unintentionally' |
| Antonyms: | tragedian |
| Main Entry: | demented |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | crazy, insane |
| Synonyms: | bananas, bemused, crackbrained, daft, delirious, deranged, distracted, distraught, flipped out, foolish, frenzied, fruity, hysterical, idiotic, in the ozone, lunatic, mad, maniac, maniacal, manic, non compos mentis, nutty as a fruitcake, out of one's gourd, out of one's tree, psycho, psychopathic, psychotic, schitzy, schizoid, unbalanced, unglued, unhinged, unsound, whacko |
| Antonyms: | balanced, rational, reasonable, sane, sensible |
| Main Entry: | deranged |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | crazy, insane |
| Synonyms: | ape, baked, bananas, berserk, cracked, crazed, delirious, demented, disarranged, disconcerted, disordered, displaced, distracted, dotty, flipped, flipped out, frantic, frenzied, fried, irrational, loco, lunatic, mad, maddened, maniac, maniacal, nuts, perplexed, schizzo, unbalanced, unglued, unhinged, unscrewed, unsettled, unsound, unzipped, whacko |
| Antonyms: | balanced, calm, ok, sane |
| Main Entry: | joker |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person who kids, teases |
| Synonyms: | actor, banana, buffoon, card*, clown, comedian, comic, cutup, droll, farceur, fool, funster, gagster, humorist, jester, jokesmith, jokester, josher, kidder, life of the party, prankster, punster, quipster, second banana, stand-up comic, stooge, straight person, top banana, trickster, wag, wisecracker, wit |
| Main Entry: | lunatic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | crazy, mad |
| Synonyms: | absurd, baked, balmy*, bananas, bonkers*, cracked, crazed, daft, demented, deranged, dippy, flaky*, flipped out, foolish, freaked out, fried, idiotic, insane, irrational, kooky, loco, maniac, maniacal, nonsensical, nutty, preposterous, psyched out, psychotic, schizoid, screwy, stupid, unsound, whacko, zany |
| Antonyms: | healthy, sane, sensible |
| Main Entry: | mad |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | crazy, insane |
| Synonyms: | aberrant, absurd, bananas, batty, crazed, cuckoo, daft, delirious, demented, deranged, distracted, fantastic, foolhardy, foolish, frantic, frenetic, frenzied, illogical, imprudent, invalid, irrational, kooky, loony, ludicrous, lunatic, mental, non compos mentis, nonsensical, nutty, of unsound mind, off one's rocker, out of one's mind, preposterous, psychotic, rabid, raving, senseless, unbalanced, unhinged, unreasonable, unsafe, unsound, unstable, wacky* |
| Antonyms: | balanced, ok, rational, reasonable, sane, sound |
| Main Entry: | nonsense |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | craziness, ridiculousness |
| Synonyms: | absurdity, babble, balderdash, baloney, bananas, bombast, bull*, bunk, claptrap, drivel, fatuity, flightiness, folly, foolishness, fun, gibberish, giddiness, hogwash, hooey, hot air, imprudence, inanity, irrationality, jazz, jest, jive, joke, ludicrousness, madness, mumbo jumbo, palaver, poppycock, prattle, pretense, ranting, rashness, rot, rubbish, scrawl, scribble, senselessness, silliness, soft soap, stupidity, thoughtlessness, trash*, tripe |
| Antonyms: | clarity, common sense, fact, intelligibility, sense, truth, understanding |
| Main Entry: | unhinged |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | demented |
| Synonyms: | bananas, batty, berserk, bonkers*, confused, crazed, crazy*, deranged, disturbed, insane, loopy, lunatic, mad, maniac, manic, mental*, out of one's mind, out to lunch, touched*, unbalanced |
| Antonyms: | sane, stable |