Thesaurus:mad person

Thesaurus:mad person

THESAURUS

mad person

English

Synonyms

• basket case

• basket weaver (Australia)

• crackpot

• crazy

• dingbat (Australia, US)

• eccentric    [WS] (euphemistic)

• fruit and nut case (Australia, Britain)

• fruit cake

• fruit loop (Australia, US)

• fruitloop (Australia, US)

• head case

• kook

• loony

• loony tune

• lunatic

• madcap (obsolete)

• mental case

• nut    [WS]

• nut ball

• nutbar

• nutburger

• nutcase

• nutjob

• nutter

• psycho

• psychoceramic

• schizo

• screwball

• space cadet

• space pilot (Australia)

• unconventional (euphemistic)

• wackadoo

• wackadoodle

• wacko

• whackjob

• whacko

• weirdo

• wingnut

• space case

Hyponyms

• madman

• madwoman

Hypernyms

• mentally deficient person    [WS]

See also

• Thesaurus:fool
• Thesaurus:insane
• Thesaurus:insanity

Further reading

• Wiktionary:Roget Thesaurus Classification

  4 Class IV. Words Relating to the Intellectual Faculties

  4.1 Division I. Formation of Ideas

  Section V. Results Of Reasoning

  504. “madman” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.

• “lunatic” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.