insane
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Latin īnsānus (“unsound in mind; mad, insane”), from in- + sānus (“sound, sane”), equivalent to in- + sane.
Base: sane
Affixes: in-
Inflected forms:
form: more insane
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: insaner
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most insane
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: insanest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Exhibiting unsoundness or disorder of mind; not sane; utterly mad.
pos: adj
examples: What is the cause of insanity? Nobody can answer such a sweeping question as that, but we know that certain diseases, such as syphilis, break down and destroy the brain cells and result in insanity. In fact, about one-half of all mental diseases can be attributed to such physical causes as brain lesions, alcohol, toxins, and injuries. But the other half—and this is the appalling part of the story—the other half of the people who go insane apparently have nothing organically wrong with their brain cells. In post-mortem examinations, when their brain tissues are studied under the highest-powered microscopes, they are found to be apparently just as healthy as yours and mine. Why do these people go insane?
And you told me not to drive
But I made it home alive
So you said that only proves that I'm insane
gloss: Used by or relating to insane people.
pos: adj
examples: an insane hospital
an insane asylum
gloss: Causing insanity or madness.
pos: adj
examples: Were such things here, as we doe speake about? / Or haue we eaten on the insane Root, / That takes the Reason Prisoner?
gloss: Characterized by excess or the utmost folly; ridiculous; impractical.
pos: adj
tags: informal
examples: an insane plan
an insane amount of money
The preposterous altruism too![…]Resist not evil. It is an insane immolation of self—as bad intrinsically as fakirs stabbing themselves or anchorites warping their spines in caves scarcely large enough for a fair-sized dog.
Yenshui is a fairly ordinary town situated between Tainan and Chiayi. However, during the Lantern Festival, on the 15th day of the first moon, the whole town goes insane.
And what actinic, mind-wrenching form could the countermeme take? How could human hands assemble something so devastatingly powerful and hold it steady; what human mind could wield it without exploding from the inside out? What would deploying that concept in anger do to human ideatic space? How far out from the solution is modern memetic science, a year, a century? What insane impossibility has Hughes just committed himself to?
gloss: Extremely good; incredibly amazing.
pos: adj
tags: slang
examples: That guy is insane at FPS games.
Cederstrand was all over the ice, whipping his sled around and firing pucks into the net. It's what Straschnitzki is aiming for. "He's insane. The turns, the shots. It's something I want to do some day."
And fans echoed their responses. "You nailed it, girl! This movie is so special. Your work is insane! 💗," one person wrote. "Is there ANYTHING you can't do?! I'm impressed," said another.
On getting two quick eliminations, SypherPK cries out ecstatically: This gun is insane, it's the best gun ever! Woohoo!
gloss: Enraged; furious.
pos: adj
tags: informal
Synonyms: 5150
bananas
barking
barking mad
buggish
buggy
bughouse
barmy
batchy
batpoop
bats
batty
bonkers
bread baskets
cracked
crackers
cra-cra
cray
cray-cray
crazed
crazy
crazy as a bedbug
crazy as a cootie
crazy as a cootie bug
crazy as a pet coon
cuckoo
daffy
daft
demented
deranged
distraught
disturbed
doolally
dotty
eccentric
fruit loops
gaga
hatstand
harebrained
insane
kooky
loon
loco
loony
loony tunes
loopy
lunatic
mad
mental
mentally ill
meshigener
meshugge
moonsick
nerts
non compos mentis
nonsane
nucking futs
nut job
nutballs
nut
nuts
nutso
nutty
nutter
off the beam
off the chain
over the edge
potty
psycho
psychoceramic
psychotic
sicko
screwy
squirrelly
starkers
tonto
unbalanced
unsane
wackadoodle
weird
whackjob
whacko
whacky
wode
yampy
zany
apeshit
batcrap
batshit
bat-shit
fucked in the head
fucked up
ripshit
Antonyms: sane
sober
Related words: insanity
a kangaroo loose in the top paddock
a half bubble off plumb
a few clowns short of a circus
a few fries short of a Happy Meal
a few spanners short of a tool box
away with the fairies
crazy as a shithouse rat
cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs
driving on three wheels
few cards short of a full deck
few cards shy of a full deck
few sandwiches short of a picnic
few X short of a Y
have a geranium in the cranium
have a screw loose
have bats in one's belfry
have static in the attic
have strudel in the noodle
his driveway doesn't go all the way to the road
insane in the membrane
losing marbles
nobody home
no longer in possession of one's faculties
not all there
not have both oars in the water
not playing with a full deck
not running on all cylinders
not right in the head
off one's box
off one's chump
off one's head
off one's hinges
off one's nut
off one's rocker
off one's tree
off one's trolley
off the deep end
off the planet
off the rails
one brick short of a full load
one card shy of a full deck
one fry short of a Happy Meal
out of one's box
out of one's gourd
out of one's head
out of one's cotton-picking mind
out of one's mind
out of one's skull
out of one's tree
out of one's wits
out there
round the bend
round the twist
stark raving mad
stark staring mad
stark staring bonkers
the cheese has slid off one's cracker
three fries short of a Happy Meal
three stops short of Dagenham
touched in the head
toys in the attic
wired wrong
mad as a box of frogs
mad as a hatter
mad as a mongoose
mad as a March hare
nutty as a fruit cake
Appendix:Snowclones/few X short of a Y
mad person
rave
becraze
stupid
wild
Derived words: drive someone insane
general paralysis of the insane
general paresis of the insane
insane asylum
insane in the membrane
insanely
insaneness
insanery
insaniac
insanify
noninsane
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