mental home

NOUN

booby hatch

Synonyms

STRONGEST

mental health institution psychiatric hospital psychiatric ward

STRONG

mental hospital mental institution

WEAK

bedlam bughouse funny farm laughing academy loony bin lunatic asylum madhouse nuthouse padded cell rubber room sanatorium sanitarium snake pit

NOUN

funny farm

Synonyms

WEAK

bedlam booby hatch bughouse laughing academy loony bin lunatic asylum madhouse mental health institution mental hospital mental institution nuthouse padded cell psychiatric hospital psychiatric ward rubber room sanatorium sanitarium snake pit

NOUN

insane asylum

Synonyms

STRONGEST

mental health institution psychiatric hospital

STRONG

mental hospital

WEAK

asylum bedlam booby hatch bughouse funny farm laughing academy loony bin lunatic asylum madhouse nut house padded cell rubber room sanatorium sanitarium snake pit

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Mr. Ochs demanded that he and his brother, who suffers from a different form of the same condition, take a pledge never to incarcerate the other in a mental home.

From New York Times • Dec. 26, 2010

In Black Picture Show, Playwright Bill Gunn's hero is already hospitalized, or rather, confined to a Bronx, New York City, mental home.

From Time Magazine Archive

Divorced now, he comes from a mental home to break in upon her romance with an uncomplicated architect.

From Time Magazine Archive

With "great sobs tearing me to pieces," Beverley was soon carted off to a mental home, suffering from a nervous breakdown.

From Time Magazine Archive

What guests were trying to elbow their way into her mental home?

From The Opened Shutters by Burnham, Clara Louise

mental home

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