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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | mentally strange |
| Synonyms: | ape, barmy, bats in the belfry, batty, berserk, bonkers*, cracked, crazed, cuckoo, daft, delirious, demented, deranged, dingy*, dippy, erratic, flaky, flipped, flipped out, freaked out, fruity, idiotic, insane, kooky, lunatic, mad, mad as a March hare, mad as a hatter, maniacal, mental*, moonstruck, nuts, nutty, nutty as fruitcake, of unsound mind, out of one's mind, out of one's tree, out to lunch, potty, psycho, round the bend, schizo, screw loose, screwball, screwy, silly, touched*, unbalanced, unglued, unhinged, unzipped, wacky |
| Antonyms: | balanced, realistic, reasonable, responsible, sane, sensible, smart |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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: | fierce |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | violent, menacing |
| Synonyms: | angry, animal, ape, awful, barbarous, bloodthirsty, blustery, boisterous, bold, brutal, brutish, cruel, cutthroat, dangerous, enraged, fell, feral, ferocious, fiery, flipped, frightening, furious, horrible, howling, impetuous, infuriated, intense, malevolent, malign, murderous, passionate, powerful, primitive, raging, raving, relentless, savage, stormy, strong, tempestuous, terrible, threatening, tigerish, truculent, tumultous/tumultuous, uncontrollable, untamed, vehement, venomous, vicious, wild |
| Antonyms: | calm, gentle, kind, meek, nonviolent, peaceful, tame, tender, unthreatening |
| Main Entry: | haywire |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | broken; crazy |
| Synonyms: | amiss, amok, batty, berserk, bonkers*, chaotic, confused, cracked, crazed, defective, disordered, disorganized, erratic, flipped, in a mess, in pieces, insane, mad, messy, nuts, orderless, out of order, out of whack, out to lunch, psycho, schizo, screwball, screwy, touched*, unbalanced, unglued, unhinged, wacky |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | inverse |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | opposite |
| Synonyms: | changed, contrary, converse, flipped, inverted, reverse, reversed, reverted, transposed, turned, turned over |
| Main Entry: | manic/maniacal |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | overexcited, crazy |
| Synonyms: | berserk, crazed, demented, deranged, excited, flipped, flipped out, freaked out, freaky, frenzied, high*, insane, lunatic, mad, nutty, psychotic, rabid, raving, turned-out, unbalanced, up*, wild |
| Antonyms: | balanced, calm, sane |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | rabid |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | very angry; maniacal |
| Synonyms: | berserk, bigoted, bitten, corybantic, crazed, crazy, delirious, deranged, enthusiastic, extreme, extremist, fanatical, fervent, flipped, foaming at the mouth, frantic, freaked out, frenetic, frenzied, furious, hot*, infuriated, insane, intemperate, intolerant, irrational, keen, mad, mad-dog, narrow-minded, nutty, obsessed, overboard, poisoned, radical, raging, revolutionary, sick*, sizzling, smoking, steamed up, ultra, ultraist, violent, virulent, wild, zealous |
| Antonyms: | delighted, happy, pleased |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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: | capsized |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | upside-down |
| Synonyms: | bottom-side-up, flipped, flipped over, inverted, overturned, tipped over, upended, upset, upturned |
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