madhouse

Noun

Meaning

A house where insane persons are confined; an insane asylum; a bedlam.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

bedlam sanatorium snake pit nuthouse funny farm booby hatch nut house loony bin cuckoo's nest crazy house funny house looney hospice pandemonium disorder

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Antonyms

slack dead flat arrangement hierarchy harmony

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Hypernyms

institution asylum psychiatric hospital insane asylum mental hospital mental institution

Examples

When you get to my age, and I'm 66 now, you realize that the world is a madhouse and that most people are operating in fantasy anyway. So once you realise that, it doesn't bother you much. John Cleese

Any one who thinks is an agnostic about something, otherwise he must believe that he is possessed of all knowledge. And the proper place for such a person is in the madhouse or the home for the feeble-minded. Clarence Darrow

Reality TV was to me the worst form of entertainment--the modern equivalent of paying sixpence to watch lunatics howling at the wall down at the local madhouse. Jasper Fforde

We take for granted the need to escape the self. Yet the self can also be a refuge. In totalitarian countries the great hunger is for private life. Absorption in the minutiae of an individual existence is the only refuge from the apocalyptic madhouse staged by maniacal saviors of humanity. Eric Hoffer

I run blindly through the madhouse... And I cannot even pray... For I have no God. Grant Morrison

Have you ever thought that war is a madhouse and that everyone in the war is a patient? Oriana Fallaci

Close letter words and terms

madhhab madhhabi madhhabite madhva sampradaya Madhya Bharat Madhya Pradesh