Insane
[ɪn'seɪn] or [ɪn'sen]
Definition
(adj.) afflicted with or characteristic of mental derangement; 'was declared insane'; 'insane laughter' .
Edited by Clifford--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Exhibiting unsoundness or disorded of mind; not sane; mad; deranged in mind; delirious; distracted. See Insanity, 2.
(a.) Used by, or appropriated to, insane persons; as, an insane hospital.
(a.) Causing insanity or madness.
(a.) Characterized by insanity or the utmost folly; chimerical; unpractical; as, an insane plan, attempt, etc.
Typist: Molly
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Deranged, crazy, crazed, lunatic, mad, distracted, demented, delirious, out of one's mind, out of one's head, out of one's senses, out of one's wits.
Checker: Newman
Definition
adj. not sane or of sound mind: crazy: mad: utterly unwise: senseless: causing insanity—(Shak.) 'insane root ' prob. hemlock or henbane.—adv. Insane′ly.—ns. Insane′ness insanity: madness; Insa′nie (Shak.) insanity; Insan′ity want of sanity: an alteration in all or any of the functions of the brain unfitting a man for affairs and rendering him dangerous to himself and others: madness.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of being insane, forebodes disastrous results to some newly undertaken work, or ill health may work sad changes in your prospects. To see others insane, denotes disagreeable contact with suffering and appeals from the poverty-stricken. The utmost care should be taken of the health after this dream.
Typed by Levi
Examples
- Do not be insane. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- It was certainly the act of an insane man to attempt the invasion of the South, and the overthrow of slavery, with less than twenty men. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Yes; I feel now that I was right when I adhered to principle and law, and scorned and crushed the insane promptings of a frenzied moment. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- It filled him with almost insane fury, this calm assumption of the Magna Mater, that all was hers, because she had borne it. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Fixation upon the immediate has made a rich country poor in leisure, has in a land meant for liberal living incited an insane struggle for existence. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- I daresay it is a mad freak, sir, but not so very insane if you look upon it from my point of view. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- And it was as though one were in the dentist's chair and there were many dentists and they were all insane. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- But under the straying voice, what a persistent, almost insane WILL! D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Is any man insane enough to imagine that this picnic of patriarchs sang, made love, danced, laughed, told anecdotes, dealt in ungodly levity? Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- He does not take a drink so that he may become an habitual drunkard, or be locked up in jail, or get into a brawl, or lose his job, or go insane. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Such was the insane act of her late husband. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Caligula (37 to 41 A.D.) was insane, but the empire carried on during four years of eccentricity at its head. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- No information could be got from the lady herself, who was temporarily insane from an acute attack of brain-fever. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- And the way in which she jockeyed Jos, and which she described with infinite fun, carried up his delight to a pitch of quite insane enthusiasm. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- The result was a nasty and insane scene with Halliday on the fourth evening. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Well, my insane inconsistency had its reward. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Henri Fournaye, occupying a small villa in the Rue Austerlitz, was reported to the authorities by her servants as being insane. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- Do not call this cave an insane asylum, Fernando said. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- This step was taken by his grandson, Ivan IV (Ivan the Terrible, because of his insane cruelties; 1533-1584). H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Muck all the insane, egotistical, treacherous swine that have always governed Spain and ruled her armies. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- I was mad--insane. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- The senseless spirit of conquest and thirst of spoil blinded them, while with insane fury they deluged the country in ruin. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Extreme, almost insane, as his doctrine undoubtedly is, it may have value as a corrective influence, an antidote for other extreme views. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
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