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stark raving mad
adjective as in bananas
adjective as in brainsick
adjective as in crackers
adjective as in fruity
adjective as in loco
Weak matches
- around the bend
- batty
- bizarre
- brainsick
- cracked
- crazed
- crazy
- crazy as a loon
- cuckoo
- daft
- demented
- deranged
- disordered
- distraught
- dotty
- fatuous
- frenzied
- idiotic
- impractical
- irrational
- irresponsible
- loony
- lunatic
- mad
- mad as a hatter
- maniac
- maniacal
- moonstruck
- not all there
- nuts
- nutty
- nutty as a fruitcake
- of unsound mind
- off
- off one's rocker
- out of one's mind
- paranoid
- preposterous
- psychopathic
- psychotic
- rabid
- raging
- raving
- screwy
- senseless
- sick in the head
- touched
- unbalanced
- unhinged
- unsettled
- unsound
- wild
- wrong
adjective as in moonstruck
Weak matches
- around the bend
- batty
- bizarre
- brainsick
- cracked
- crazed
- crazy
- crazy as a loon
- cuckoo
- daft
- demented
- deranged
- disordered
- distraught
- dotty
- fatuous
- frenzied
- idiotic
- impractical
- irrational
- irresponsible
- loony
- lunatic
- mad
- mad as a hatter
- maniac
- maniacal
- not all there
- nuts
- nutty
- nutty as a fruitcake
- of unsound mind
- off
- off one's rocker
- out of one's mind
- paranoid
- preposterous
- psychopathic
- psychotic
- rabid
- raging
- raving
- screwy
- senseless
- sick in the head
- touched
- unbalanced
- unhinged
- unsettled
- unsound
- wild
- wrong
Example Sentences
One foreign diplomat texted The Washington Post’s Ishaan Tharoor: “This man is stark, raving mad. Do Americans not see how embarrassing this is?”
He looked at me as if I was stark raving mad.
But I went absolutely, stark raving mad.
"But I think the Conservative Party would look absolutely stark, raving mad if it had another PM. I think it would just entrench the brand problems that are all there."
Putin looks — how to put this nicely? — completely bonkers, or what the British call “starkers,” short for stark raving mad.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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