Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Of, exhibiting, or afflicted with insanity.
- adj. Characteristic of or associated with persons afflicted with insanity: an insane laugh; insane babbling.
- adj. Intended for use by such persons: an insane asylum.
- adj. Immoderate; wild: insane jealousy.
- adj. Very foolish; absurd: took insane risks behind the wheel.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Not sane; unsound or deranged in mind; crazy.
- Characteristic of a person mentally deranged; hence, wild; insensate; senseless.
- Devoted to the use or care of the insane: as, an insane asylum.
- Making insane; causing insanity.
- Synonyms Crazed, lunatic, demented, maniacal.
Wiktionary
- adj. Exhibiting unsoundness or disorder of mind; not sane; mad; deranged in mind; delirious; distracted.
- adj. Used by, or appropriated to, insane persons; as, an insane hospital.
- adj. Causing insanity or madness.
- adj. Characterized by insanity or the utmost folly; chimerical; unpractical; as, an insane plan, attempt, etc.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Exhibiting unsoundness or disorder of mind; not sane; mad; deranged in mind; delirious; distracted. See insanity, 2.
- adj. Used by, or appropriated to, insane persons.
- adj. rare Causing insanity or madness.
- adj. Characterized by insanity or the utmost folly; chimerical; unpractical.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. very foolish
- adj. afflicted with or characteristic of mental derangement
Etymologies
- From Latin īnsānus ("unsound in mind; mad, insane"), from in- + sānus ("sound, sane"). (Wiktionary)
- Latin īnsānus : in-, not; see in-1 + sānus, sane, healthy. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“The term insane is outdated parlance in the mental health community.”
“Under Section 16 of Canada's Criminal Code, a person is deemed to be not criminally responsible the term 'insane' having been scrapped if the crime was committed while "suffering from a mental disorder that rendered the person incapable of appreciating the nature and quality of the act or omission or of knowing that it was wrong.”
“when hitler started the pracitice of euthenasia he started with his own people in the insane asylums, and the term insane back then is not what we consider it to be now.. a kid with ADD or midly slow could be "put down".. all part of the "not fit to work not fit for life" campiagn.”
“He remembers what he calls the "insane" calculus of Mutually Assured Destruction, which dominated Cold War policy.”
“Look at what I call the insane spending of government in America.”
“I think the word insane is appropriate in your blog, however awesome?”
If you pay them enough, they'll massage your feet with any of them sauces
“She did not manage to get the word "insane" out, for another wave of agony hit her, far worse than the previous.”
“As a matter of fact, the doctor, when he came the next day, was in a towering rage with Mrs. Van Shaw over what he called her insane yielding to the request of a delirious patient.”
“LOS ANGELES Reuters - Groupon Inc CEO Andrew Mason, lashing out at what he called "insane" and "hilarious" criticism in the media, defended the daily-deals website's record and growth strategy in a lengthy memo to employees on Thursday.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘insane’.
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Bonkers
List for old and new terms and phrases meaning crazy, nuts, batty, prone to extreme nervousness, etc.
bonkers, crazy, nuts, batty, batchy, bats in the belfry, scatty, crackers, windy, gone crackers, cracked, dingo and 92 more...
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Bonkers
crackers, barmy, half-baked, mental, unhinged, barking, cuckoo, cracked, nuts, mad, insane, touched and 24 more...
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Twitter faves
The new favourite words of people on Twitter.
A script searches Twitter for "X is my new favourite word" and adds it to this list.
See also:
niglets, aw, flakey, shiznit, thatch, sexy, bummers, hotty, eargasms, ratchetry, weird, fab and 457 more... -
The Medley of Me
A jumble of words, sometimes contradictory, that add up to me. I'll probably be adding to this list for some time, because I'm a very complex individual. ;P
male, long-haired, big-eyed, writer, artist, guitarist, songsmith, talespinner, pilot, wannabe barnstormer, gypsy, cuddlesome and 209 more...
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Miss Sunshine
she's such a joy.
bereaved, bitter, cheerless, dejected, depressed, despairing, despondent, disconsolate, dismal, distressed, doleful, downcast and 405 more...
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Apples to Apples: Green Cards
A complete list of the green cards (adjectives) from the popular word game.
absurd, addictive, adorable, aged, American, ancient, animated, annoying, appetizing, arrogant, awesome, awkward and 237 more...
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The History of Cool
Words that mean "cool" around the world and through the ages.
cool, awesome, wild, stylin', groovy, neat, nifty, swell, great, tubular, radical, bitchin' and 188 more...
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geekwad's Words
mysterium, elif, reckon, shadowy, ostensibly, unique, foodie, surreptitiously, asynchronous, insane, berserk, space pirate and 235 more...
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The "dark" things
grave, dead, death, die, died, dies, murder, murdered, murderer, murders, murdering, murderous and 115 more...
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Words of the Day
glabella, chirotony, nook-shotten, crapehanger, filemot, swirlie, egosurf, lexiphanicism, Ruritanian, stichometry, chrononaut, faldstool and 1991 more...
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swag
one word music reviews
critical, official, swag, sick, slap, rugged, wicked, nasty, mad, filthy, sublime, ace and 29 more...
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song starters (twisted song starters)
Words/phrases inextricably tied to the songs they're in, sparking off earworms here there & everywhere (there's one, to start with). Only my own personal examples.
Do guess the more p...as i recall, here there and ev..., firestarter, final countdown, every now and then, turn around, pipe wrench, goodness gracious, insane, fuck you, scat, 21 seconds and 79 more...
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Words I Probably Overuse
queue, hopefully, desultory, presumably, arguably, insane, fuck, illicit, ploy, dregs, lurid, ginormous and 9 more...
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Random and Lovely Words.
:)
scrupulous, evasive, dandy, lovely, complacent, pickle, tomato, jingle, chipper, telepathy, snicker, wry and 74 more...
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Tunie: And the Band Played Waltzing M...
I used to sing this as a lullaby to my spawn—till said spawn grew big enough to understand the words, and asked me to sing something else.
Written by Eric Bogle, c. 1971.
...billabong, ghosts, no one, fewer, the call, question, what are they mar..., forgotten war, forgotten, sore, stiff, bent and 66 more...
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strausser's Words
utterly, pathetic, awesome, oblivious, neurotic, savour, stipulate, macintosh, passionate, insane, chai, cinnamon and 75 more...
Tweets
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