madhouse

Synonyms for madhouse

noun place where mentally ill live; place full of commotion

noun. chaotic situation

adjective. frantic, turbulent

1680s, from mad + house (n.). Figurative use by 1919.

She jolly near drove as fine a fellow as ever lived into a madhouse.

There are only two things to be considered: the madhouse or instant flight.

The point of view can turn three walls and a door into a madhouse.

Nor was that poor innocent woman, his mother, who died in the madhouse.

The madhouse yawns for the person who always does the proper thing.

Thirty-six years in a madhouse, that some young fools might have some fun!

An this be madness, mistress, then is her Majesty's whole court a madhouse.

I must either sign whatever was given to sign, or be sent to a madhouse.

Escaped from their imprisonment, they rush to and fro, like maniacs let out of a madhouse.

New York was a madhouse worse than any carnival Charley had ever seen.