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

Example Sentences

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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

Last season, in Home, Storey made old age in a mental home his metaphor for the decline and fragmentation of empire.

From Time Magazine Archive

Last week these names made this news: When soul-searching Author F. Scott Fitzgerald came to Hollywood in 1937, he left his wife Zelda behind in a North Carolina mental home.

From Time Magazine Archive

It was a short novel by a Brooklyn psychiatrist, actually little more than two case histories with dialogue, about a curative love that develops between two teen-age children in a suburban mental home.

From Time Magazine Archive

There is a mental home near Grasse where I believe they would take her; I can telephone and find out.

From Juggernaut by Campbell, Alice

mental home

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