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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | bewitched; under a spell |
| Synonyms: | bedeviled, berserk*, consumed, crazed, cursed, demented, enchanted, enthralled, fiendish, frenetic, frenzied, gone*, haunted, hooked, insane, into*, mad*, obsessed, raving, taken over, violent |
| Antonyms: | normal |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | queer |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | odd; abnormal |
| Synonyms: | anomalous, atypical, bizarre, crazy, curious, demented, disquieting, doubtful, droll, dubious, eccentric, eerie, erratic, extraordinary, fishy, flaky*, fly ball, freaky, funny, idiosyncratic, irrational, irregular, kinky*, kooky, mad, mysterious, oddball, off the wall, outlandish, outré, peculiar, puzzling, quaint, questionable, remarkable, shady, singular, strange, suspicious, touched, unbalanced, uncanny, uncommon, unconventional, unhinged, unnatural, unorthodox, unusual, wacky*, weird |
| Antonyms: | normal, regular, typical, usual |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | unbalanced |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | crazy; mentally disturbed |
| Synonyms: | batty, daft, demented, deranged, eccentric, erratic, flaky*, freaky, insane, irrational, kinky*, kooky, lunatic, mad, nobody home, non compos mentis, not all there, nutty, out to lunch, psychotic, touched, troubled, unglued, unhinged, unscrewed, unsound, unstable |
| Antonyms: | balanced, sane, well |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | unsound |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | not well; flimsy |
| Synonyms: | ailing, crazed, dangerous, decrepit, defective, delicate, demented, deranged, diseased, erroneous, fallacious, false, faulty, flawed, fragile, frail, ill, illogical, in poor health, inaccurate, incongruous, incorrect, infirm, insane, insecure, insubstantial, invalid, lunatic, mad, not solid, rickety, shaky, specious, tottering, unbacked, unbalanced, unhealthy, unhinged, unreliable, unsafe, unstable, unsteady, unsubstantial, unwell, weak, wobbly |
| Antonyms: | safe, sound, stable, strong, well |
| Main Entry: | wacky |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | acting crazy |
| Synonyms: | absurd, balmy, crazed, crazy, daft, demented, deranged, eccentric, erratic, foolish, hare-brained, insane, irrational, loony, lunatic, mad, nuts, nutty, odd, preposterous, screwy, silly, unpredictable, wild, zany* |
| Antonyms: | calm, collected |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | nuts |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | crazy |
| Synonyms: | bananas, batty, bonkers, demented, deranged, eccentric, insane, loco, loony, mad, nutty, touched, wild |
| Main Entry: | manic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | crazy |
| Synonyms: | berserk, crazed, demented, deranged, excited, flipped, flipped out, freaked out, freaky, frenzied, high, hopped up, insane, lunatic, mad, maniacal, nutty, overexcited, psychotic, rabid, raving, turned out, unbalanced, up, wild |
| Notes: | a maniac is an insane person, while manic means affected with or marked by frenzy or mania uncontrolled by reason |
| Antonyms: | sane |
| Main Entry: | mentally ill |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | unwell in the mind |
| Synonyms: | cracked, crazed, crazy, cuckoo, daft, demented, deranged, insane, loco, loony, lunatic, mad, not of sound mind, nuts, nutty, off one's rocker, out of one's mind, paranoid, psycho, psychopathic, psychotic, schizophrenic, touched, unbalanced |
| Main Entry: | non compos mentis |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | of unsound mind |
| Synonyms: | demented, deprived of one's wits, lunatic, non compos, not of sound mind, unbalanced, unsound |
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