Thesaurus:mental hospital
English
Noun
Sense: A facility designed to house people with mental disorders
Synonyms
- bedlam (obsolete)
- bin (slang)
- booby-hatch (slang, derogatory)
- booby house (slang, derogatory)
- bughouse (slang, derogatory)
- crazy house (derogatory)
- cuckoo's nest (slang)
- funny farm (slang)
- happy hotel (euphemism, derogatory)
- insane asylum (dated)
- laughing academy (slang, euphemism, derogatory)
- loony bin (slang)
- lunatic asylum [⇒ thesaurus] (dated, offensive)
- madhouse (obsolete)
- mental asylum (dated)
- mental home
- grippy sock vacation
- mental health center
- mental health hospital
- mental hospital
- mental institution
- nutfarm (offensive)
- nuthouse (offensive)
- psychiatric hospital
- psychopathic hospital
- psychiatric ward
- psych ward
- special hospital (euphemism)
- whack shack (slang)
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Further reading
- “503. insanity” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
- “mental hospital” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.