out of one's mind

out of one's mind

English

Alternative forms

• out of one's cotton-picking mind
• off one's head

Pronunciation

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Adjective

out of one's mind

1. (idiomatic) Insane, crazy.

   You're out of your mind if you think you can jump that far.

   • 1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt, Olympia Press:

     Or was Erskine out of his mind? And he himself Watt was he not perhaps slightly deranged? And Mr. Knott himself, was he quite right in his head?

2. (idiomatic) Temporarily mentally unstable; very distressed.

   When you didn't phone home, we were out of our minds with worry.

Synonyms

• (crazy): out of one's box, out of one's gourd, out of one's head, out of one's skull, out there
• See also Thesaurus:insane.

Antonyms

• (temporarily distressed): in one's right mind
• See also Thesaurus:sane.

Related terms

• wrongminded
• (crazy, temporarily distressed): lose one's mind

Translations

insane

Chinese: Mandarin: 發瘋 (zh), 发疯 (zh) (fāfēng) Danish: please add this translation if you can Finnish: järjiltään (fi) Galician: fóra de si Hungarian: nincs eszénél, meg van őrülve, elment az esze Latin: dēmens, impos animī Polish: szalony (pl), zwariowany (pl) Portuguese: fora de si Russian: сумасше́дший (ru) (sumasšédšij) Spanish: fuera de la mente de uno, como una cabra, como las maracas de Machín

distressed

Chinese: Mandarin: 憂慮 (zh), 忧虑 (zh) (yōulǜ) Danish: please add this translation if you can Finnish: sekaisin (fi) Galician: fóra de si Hungarian: majd megőrül Portuguese: fora de si Russian: вне себя́ (ru) (vne sebjá) Spanish: please add this translation if you can