/ English Dictionary |
INSANE ASYLUM
Pronunciation (US): | (GB): |
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A hospital for mentally incompetent or unbalanced person
Synonyms:
asylum; insane asylum; institution; mental home; mental hospital; mental institution; psychiatric hospital
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("insane asylum" is a kind of...):
hospital; infirmary (a health facility where patients receive treatment)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "insane asylum"):
Bedlam; booby hatch; crazy house; cuckoo's nest; funny farm; funny house; loony bin; madhouse; nut house; nuthouse; sanatorium; snake pit (pejorative terms for an insane asylum)