insane English

Meaning insane meaning

What does insane mean?

Definitions in simple English

insane Adjective

— If you are insane you can not think well because of mental illness. He was sent to a mental hospital because he was insane. Nothing he signed can be used because he was insane when he signed.

— An insane idea is very strange, like something a crazy person might think of. That has got to be the most insane thing I have ever heard.

— If something is insane it does not make sense. It is strange in a bad way. The price of gas these days is insane.

insane

— adjective afflicted with or characteristic of mental derangement was declared insane insane laughter

— adjective (= harebrained, mad) very foolish harebrained ideas took insane risks behind the wheel a completely mad scheme to build a bridge between two mountains

Synonyms insane synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as insane?

insane English » English

mad

crazy

nuts

lunatic

demented

mentally ill

stupid

foolish

deranged

psychotic

madman

loco

frantic

berserk

barmy

unhinged

silly

out of one’s mind

loony

eccentric

daft

unreasonable

senseless

senile

raving

possessed

obsessed

nutty

nut

nonsensical

mindless

mentally deranged

maniac

idiotic

harebrained

frenzied

crackers

become mad

batty

bats

bananas

balmy

absurd

abnormal

Laputan

witless

wild

whimsical

wacky

wacko

Topics insane topics

What do people use insane to talk about?

Social behavior Behavior Polite

Crazy

• What words describe someone who is crazy?
  crazy mad insane berserk barmy deranged dotty batty flaky
• What words describe something someone does that is crazy?
  crazy insane mad screwy

Person Healthy

Mental illness

• What words describe someone who is mentally ill?
  mentally ill insane mad crazy disturbed mentally disabled crackbrained crazed demonized demon possessed feeble minded melancholic neurotic obsessive paranoid preoccupied psychopathic psychotic retarded catatonic
• What words refer to becoming mentally ill?
  have a nervous breakdown crack up go mad go insane go crazy go senile develop a psychosis
• What words refer to a hospital for mentally ill people?
  insane asylum

Language and thought Think Mind

Stupid

• What words describe a person who does not think well?
  asinine blind brainless crass crazy daft delirious demented dense dim dizzy doltish dull dull-witted dumb fanatical fatuous foolish harebrained idiotic inane ingenuous insane insensitive irrational lumpish moronic naive nonsensical obtuse retarded senile senseless silly simple slow slow-witted stupid thick thickheaded undiscerning unimaginative unperceptive unsound witless lacking in intelligence mentally lazy

Examples insane examples

How do I use insane in a sentence?

Simple sentences

This world is just an insane asylum.

Hamlet acts as if he were insane.

He went insane from the unhappy accident.

The man must be insane.

That's insane! Your mom speaks six languages?

People said that he is insane.

This is an institution for the criminally insane.

Tom has gone insane.

This is insane.

You're insane.

Tom's insane.

You're both insane.

She drives me totally insane.

This noise is driving me insane.

The gunman was found to be insane.

Are you insane?

That is insane.

Tom is insane.

Movie subtitles

Some candidates went completely insane under the pressure.

She must be really insane.

I'm sorry, but this is insane.

Don't be insane-brain.

You're not insane.

There are witch confessions that are totally insane.

The arrogance of this woman is insane.

His insane ambition to create life.

Heavens, the man's insane!

Sure I'm insane!

Your assistant, who went insane and died, as you might have done if you'd seen what he saw, made a transcription of part of that scroll.

The police force their way in to seize him only to find he had gone hopelessly insane.

Mabuse was committed to an insane asylum and to this day has not spoken a word to anyone.

Maybe the guy isn't insane after all.

The man's insane!

Sure I'm insane.

Mata, if you don't help me forget this ghastly business for a few hours, I'm going insane.

Why, Cyril, you're insane.

Clark, you're insane to wait.

Youre insane.

Are you insane?

And when you rave of your insane desire to create living men from the dust of the dead, a strange apparition has seemed to appear in the room.

That one insane clash turned the tide in our favor.

All I know about you is you stole my car and I'm insane about you.

Either to formally charge you with murder and send you to the gallows, or to have you committed to an institution for the criminally insane.

ARE YOU INSANE?! IT WASN'T MY IDEA.

That was insane.

Rebecca. Two-two weeks is insane.

It was Gjermund who was driven to this confused action by insane jealousy.

You are insane.

No, I'm not insane.

Out of that insane mob, you say nothing happens?

Yes, you're insane. Completely insane.

I give you my word, if anything else happens, I'll go insane.

Pasha. you're insane.

News and current affairs

Last month, however, the military prosecutor accepted Colonel Budanov's argument that he was temporarily insane when he killed the girl, and so acquitted Budanov on the charge of murder.

After all, no army can be held accountable for the murderous actions of an insane man.

OK, so maybe it is too soon for the world to start toasting America's insane consumption patterns.

If they were clinically insane, nothing more would need to be explained.

Knowingly marching down that road would be insane.

Most institutions that are invested in an individualistic orientation hold up the person as sinner, culpable, afflicted, insane, or irrational.

Are Terrorists Insane?

Our default reaction, often reinforced by Western philosophical traditions and simplistic political rhetoric, is that evil acts must be the product of fundamentally evil or insane individuals.

This permanent diet of paranoia has created something akin to a nationwide insane asylum, where ignorance, terror, and suspicion rule.

PRINCETON: Around the world commentators fondly insist that Boris Yeltsin's relations with reality are episodic, unpredictable, erratic, maybe even insane.