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All lunatic asylum synonyms

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noun lunatic asylum

  • bedlam — Bedlam means a great deal of noise and disorder. People often say 'It was bedlam' to mean 'There was bedlam'.
  • booby hatch — a hoodlike covering for a hatchway on a ship
  • funny farm — a psychiatric hospital.
  • madhouse — a hospital for the confinement and treatment of mentally disturbed persons.
  • mental hospital — psychiatric institution
  • nut house — a mental hospital; insane asylum.
  • snake pit — a mental hospital marked by squalor and inhumane or indifferent care for the patients.
  • bughouse — a mental hospital or asylum
  • laughing academy — (Slang) A mental hospital.
  • nuthouse — a mental hospital; insane asylum.
  • padded cell — a room, as in a mental hospital, with padded walls for the confinement of violent inmates.
  • psychiatric hospital — institution treating mental disorders
  • rubber room — Informal. a room padded with foam rubber for the confinement of a violent mentally ill person.
  • sanatorium — a hospital for the treatment of chronic diseases, as tuberculosis or various nervous or mental disorders.
  • sanitarium — an institution for the preservation or recovery of health, especially for convalescence; health resort.
  • loony bin — an insane asylum or the psychiatric ward of a hospital.
  • mental home — a home, hospital, or institution for people who are mentally ill
  • asylum — If a government gives a person from another country asylum, they allow them to stay, usually because they are unable to return home safely for political reasons.
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