| Main Entry: | mental |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | concerning the mind |
Synonyms: |
brainy, cerebral, clairvoyant, deep, heavy, ideological, imaginative, immaterial, inner, intellective, intellectual, mysterious, phrenic, psychic, psychical, psychological, rational, reasoning, spiritual, subconscious, subjective, subliminal, telepathic, thinking, thoughtful, unreal |
Antonyms: |
body, physical |
| Main Entry: | mental |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | insane |
Synonyms: |
deranged, disturbed, fruity, loco, lunatic, mad, maniac, mentally ill, mindless, non compos mentis, nuts, nutsy, psychiatric, psychotic, unbalanced, unstable |
Antonyms: |
balanced, sane |
| Main Entry: | aberrant |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | not normal; varying from the usual |
Synonyms: |
abnormal, atypical, bizarre, deviant, different, flaky*, mental*, nonstandard, odd, off-base, off-color, out of line, peculiar, psycho, strange, unusual, weird |
Antonyms: |
normal, same, true |
| Main Entry: | crazed |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | insane |
Synonyms: |
berserk, certifiable, crazy, demented, deranged, frenzied, hysterical, lunatic, mad, maniac, manic, mental*, out of one's mind, psychopathic, raving |
Antonyms: |
sane |
| Main Entry: | crazy |
| 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 |
| Main Entry: | daft |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | stupid; crazy |
Synonyms: |
absurd, asinine, bedlamite, bonkers, cracked, crackers, daffy, demented, deranged, dopey, flaky*, foolish, fried, giddy, half-baked, idiotic, in the ozone, inane, insane, lunatic, mad, mental*, nuts, nutty, off the wall, out of one's gourd, ridiculous, screwy, silly, simple, touched, unbalanced, unhinged, unsound, wacky, whacko, witless |
Antonyms: |
brainy, bright, intelligent, smart, understanding |
| Main Entry: | ideal |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | conceptual; impractical |
Synonyms: |
Utopian, abstract, chimerical, dreamlike, extravagant, fanciful, fictitious, high-flown, hypothetical, imaginary, in the clouds, intellectual, ivory-tower, mental, mercurial, notional, out-of-reach, quixotic, theoretical, transcendent, transcendental, unattainable, unearthly, unreal, visionary |
| Notes: | ideal means conforming to an ultimate standard of perfection or excellence; idealistic means of or pertaining to idealists or their theories, pursuing perfection |
Antonyms: |
actual, common, material, practical, pragmatic |
| Main Entry: | insane |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | mentally ill; foolish |
Synonyms: |
batty, bizarre, cracked, crazed, crazy, cuckoo, daft, demented, derailed, deranged, fatuous, frenzied, idiotic, impractical, irrational, irresponsible, loony, lunatic, mad, maniacal, mental, moonstruck, nuts, nutty, of unsound mind, off one's rocker, out of one's mind, paranoid, preposterous, psychopathic, psychotic, rabid, raging, raving, schizophrenic, screwy, senseless, touched, unhinged, unsettled, wild |
Antonyms: |
balanced, healthy, rational, reasonable, sane, sound, well |
| Main Entry: | intellectual |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | very smart |
Synonyms: |
bookish, brainy, cerebral, creative, highbrow, highbrowed, intellective, intelligent, inventive, learned, mental, phrenic, psychological, rational, scholarly, studious, subjective, thoughtful |
Antonyms: |
foolish, ignorant, simple, stupid |
| Main Entry: | loony |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | crazy |
Synonyms: |
ape, barmy, batty, berserk, bonkers*, cracked, crazed, cuckoo, daffy, daft, delirious, demented, deranged, flaky, flipped out, insane, kooky, lunatic, mad, maniacal, mental*, nuts, nutty, out of one's mind, out to lunch, psycho, screwball, screwy, silly, touched*, unbalanced, wacky |