Thesaurus:mad person
English
[edit]Noun
[edit]Sense: insane, mentally deranged person
[edit]Synonyms
[edit]- basket case
- basket weaver (Australia)
- crack
- crackpot
- crazy
- dingbat (Australia, US)
- eccentric [⇒ thesaurus] (euphemistic)
- fruit and nut case (Australia, UK)
- fruit cake
- fruit loop (Australia, US)
- fruitloop (Australia, US)
- head case
- kook
- loony
- loony tune
- lunatic
- madcap (obsolete)
- mental case
- nut [⇒ thesaurus]
- nut ball
- nutbar
- nutburger
- nutcase
- nutjob
- nutter
- psycho
- psychoceramic
- schizo
- screwball
- space cadet
- space pilot (Australia)
- unconventional (euphemistic)
- wackadoo
- wackadoodle
- wacko
- whackjob
- whacko
- weirdo
- wingnut
- space case
Hyponyms
[edit]Hypernyms
[edit]- mentally deficient person [⇒ thesaurus]
See also
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- Wiktionary:Roget Thesaurus Classification
- 4 Class IV. Words Relating to the Intellectual Faculties
- 4.1 Division I. Formation of Ideas
- Section V. Results Of Reasoning
- 504. “madman” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
- Section V. Results Of Reasoning
- 4.1 Division I. Formation of Ideas
- 4 Class IV. Words Relating to the Intellectual Faculties
- “lunatic” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.