madness

disordered reason, disordered intellect; diseased mind, unsound mind, abnormal mind; derangement, unsoundness., insanity, lunacy; madness; mania, rabies, furor, mental alienation, aberration; paranoia; dementation, dementia, demency; phrenitis, phrensy, frenzy, raving, incoherence, wandering, delirium, calenture of the brain; delusion, hallucination; lycanthropy; brainstorm., vertigo, dizziness, swimming; sunstroke, coup de soleil, siriasis., fanaticism, infatuation, craze; oddity, eccentricity, twist, monomania; kleptodipsomania; hypochondriassis (low spirits); melancholia, hysteria; amentia., screw loose, tile loose, slate loose; bee in one's bonnet, rats in the upper story., dotage (imbecility).

be insane, become insane; lose one's senses, lose one's reason, lose one's faculties, lose one's wits; go mad, run mad; rave, dote, ramble, wander; drivel (be imbecile); have a screw loose, have a devil; avoir le diable au corps; lose one's head (be uncertain) [more]., render mad, drive mad; madden, dementate, addle the wits, derange the head, infatuate, befool; turn the brain, turn one's head.

insane, mad, lunatic; crazy, crazed, aliene, non compos mentis; not right, cracked, touched; bereft of reason; all possessed, unhinged, unsettled in one's mind; insensate, reasonless, beside oneself, demented, daft; phrenzied, frenzied, frenetic; possessed, possessed with a devil; deranged, maddened, moonstruck; shatterpated; mad-brained, scatterbrained, shatterbrained, crackbrained; off one's head., maniacal; delirious, lightheaded, incoherent, rambling, doting, wandering; frantic, raving, stark staring mad., corybantic, dithyrambic; rabid, giddy, vertiginous, wild; haggard, mazed; flighty; distracted, distraught; bewildered (uncertain).

like one possessed.

derangement; disorder; evection, discomposure, disturbance; disorganization, deorganization; dislocation; perturbation, interruption; shufflng; inversion; corrugation (fold); involvement.

derange; disarrange, misarrange; displace, misplace; mislay, discompose, disorder; deorganize, discombobulate, disorganize; embroil, unsettle, disturb, confuse, trouble, perturb, jumble, tumble; shuffle, randomize; huddle, muddle, toss, hustle, fumble, riot; bring into disorder, put into disorder, throw into disorder [more]; muss [U.S.]; break the ranks, disconcert, convulse; break in upon., unhinge, dislocate, put out of joint, throw out of gear., turn topsy-turvy (invert) [more]; bedevil; complicate, involve, perplex, confound; imbrangle, embrangle, tangle, entangle, ravel, tousle, towzle, dishevel, ruffle; rumple (fold)., litter, scatter; mix.

deranged; syncretic, syncretistic; mussy, messy; flaky; random, unordered [U.S.].

want of intelligence, want of intellect [more]; shadowness, silliness, foolishness; imbecility, incapacity, vacancy of mind, poverty of intellect, clouded perception, poor head, apartments to let; stupidity, stolidity; hebetude, dull understanding, meanest capacity, shortsightedness; incompetence (unskillfulness)., one's weak side; bias; infatuation (insanity)., simplicity, puerility, babyhood; dotage, anility, second childishness, fatuity; idiocy, idiotism; driveling., folly, frivolity, irrationality, trifling, ineptitude, nugacity, inconsistency, lip wisdom, conceit; sophistry; giddiness (inattention); eccentricity; extravagance (absurdity); rashness., act of folly., be imbecile; have no brains, have no sense [more]., trifle, drivel, radoter, dote; ramble (madness); play the fool, play the monkey; take leave of one's senses; not see an inch beyond one's nose; stultify oneself; talk nonsense.

[Applied to persons] unintelligent, unintellectual, unreasoning; mindless, witless, reasoningless, brainless; halfbaked; having no head; not bright; inapprehensible., weak headed, addle headed, puzzle headed, blunder headed, muddle headed, muddy headed, pig headed, beetle headed, buffle headed, chuckle headed, mutton headed, maggoty headed, grossheaded; beef headed, fat witted, fat-headed., weak-minded, feeble-minded; dull minded, shallow minded, lack-brained; rattle-brained, rattle headed; half witted, lean witted, short witted, dull witted, blund-witted, shallow-pated, clod-pated, addle-pated; dim-sighted, short-sighted; thick-skulled; weak in the upper story., shallow, borne, weak, wanting, soft, sappy, spoony; dull, dull as a beetle; stupid, heavy, insulse, obtuse, blunt, stolid, doltish; asinine; inapt; prosaic; hebetudinous., childish; infantine, infantile, babyish, babish; puerile, anile; simple (credulous)., fatuous, idiotic, imbecile, driveling; blatant, babbling; vacant; sottish; bewildered., blockish, unteachable, Boeotian, Boeotic; bovine; ungifted, undiscerning, unenlightened, unwise, unphilosphical; apish; simious., foolish, silly, senseless, irrational, insensate, nonsensical, inept; maudlin.