| Main Entry: | demented |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | crazy, insane |
Synonyms: |
bananas, bemused, crackbrained, daft, delirious, deranged, distracted, distraught, flipped out, foolish, frenzied, fruity, hysterical, idiotic, in the ozone, lunatic, mad, maniac, maniacal, manic, non compos mentis, nutty as a fruitcake, out of one's gourd, out of one's tree, psycho, psychopathic, psychotic, schitzy, schizoid, unbalanced, unglued, unhinged, unsound, whacko |
Antonyms: |
balanced, rational, reasonable, sane, sensible |
| Main Entry: | lunatic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | crazy, mad |
Synonyms: |
absurd, baked, balmy*, bananas, bonkers*, cracked, crazed, daft, demented, deranged, dippy, flaky*, flipped out, foolish, freaked out, fried, idiotic, insane, irrational, kooky, loco, maniac, maniacal, nonsensical, nutty, preposterous, psyched out, psychotic, schizoid, screwy, stupid, unsound, whacko, zany |
Antonyms: |
healthy, sane, sensible |
| Main Entry: | maniac |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person who is crazy, overenthusiastic |
Synonyms: |
Section 8, bedlamite, bigot, crackpot, enthusiast, fan, fanatic, fiend, flake, freak, fruitcake, kook, loon, loony, lunatic, madperson, nut*, nutcase, psycho, psychopath, schizoid, screwball, zealot |
| Notes: | a maniac is an insane person, while manic means affected with or marked by frenzy or mania uncontrolled by reason |
| Main Entry: | psychopath |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person who is mentally deranged, often prone to hurt others |
Synonyms: |
antisocial personality, insane person, lunatic, mad person, maniac, mental case, nutcase, psycho, psychotic, schizoid, sociopath, unstable personality |
| Main Entry: | sociopath |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | psychopath |
Synonyms: |
antisocial personality, crazy person, deranged person, insane person, lunatic, mad person, maniac, psycho, psychotic, schizoid |
| Main Entry: | off the wall |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | bizarrely unusual |
Synonyms: |
absurd, crazy, curious, daft, different, eccentric, flaky, kinky, kooky, nonconforming, not tightly wrapped, nuts, nutty, odd, oddball, off-center, out in left field, outlandish, peculiar, queer, schizo, schizoid, strange, unconventional, unpredictable, wacky, weird, wigged out |