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单词 batty
释义

batty

adjective

bat·​ty ˈba-tē How to pronounce batty (audio)
battier; battiest
1
: of, relating to, or resembling a bat
2
: mentally unstable : crazy
battiness noun

Synonyms

  • balmy
  • barmy [chiefly British]
  • bats
  • bedlam
  • bonkers
  • brainsick
  • bughouse [slang]
  • certifiable
  • crackbrained
  • cracked
  • crackers
  • crackpot
  • cranky [dialect]
  • crazed
  • crazy
  • cuckoo
  • daffy
  • daft
  • demented
  • deranged
  • fruity [slang]
  • gaga
  • haywire
  • insane
  • kooky
  • kookie
  • loco [slang]
  • loony
  • looney
  • loony tunes
  • looney tunes
  • lunatic
  • mad
  • maniacal
  • maniac
  • mental
  • meshuga
  • meshugge
  • meshugah
  • meshuggah
  • moonstruck
  • non compos mentis
  • nuts
  • nutty
  • psycho
  • psychotic
  • scatty [chiefly British]
  • screwy
  • unbalanced
  • unhinged
  • unsound
  • wacko
  • whacko
  • wacky
  • whacky
  • wud [chiefly Scottish]
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Example Sentences

a batty old lady who lives with 100 cats
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Word History

First Known Use

1600, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Kids Definition

batty

adjective

bat·​ty ˈba-tē How to pronounce batty (audio)
battier; battiest
: crazy sense 1

batty

adjective

as in psychotic
having or showing a very abnormal or sick state of mind a batty old lady who lives with 100 cats

Synonyms & Similar Words

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  • psychotic
  • nuts
  • mad
  • lunatic
  • insane
  • gaga
  • crazy
  • maniac
  • maniacal
  • psycho
  • paranoid
  • bonkers
  • mental
  • cuckoo
  • barmy
  • demented
  • crazed
  • wacko
  • bats
  • loony
  • deranged
  • daffy
  • unhinged
  • nutty
  • disturbed
  • scatty
  • moonstruck
  • ballistic
  • looney
  • certifiable
  • haywire
  • daft
  • kooky
  • eccentric
  • irrational
  • whacko
  • strange
  • loco
  • wacky
  • meshuga
  • bedlam
  • cracked
  • crackpot
  • bughouse
  • screwy
  • whacky
  • kookie
  • depressed
  • unbalanced
  • around the bend
  • paranoidal
  • crackers
  • obsessed
  • brainsick
  • loopy
  • foolish
  • dotty
  • cranky
  • fruity
  • meshuggah
  • off
  • odd
  • wud
  • meshugah
  • neurotic
  • unsound
  • meshugge
  • fey
  • balmy
  • schizophrenic
  • distracted
  • loony tunes
  • unreasonable
  • out to lunch
  • queer
  • crackbrained
  • distraught
  • frantic
  • looney tunes
  • schizoid
  • non compos mentis
  • paranoiac
  • hysterical
  • delirious
  • touched
  • berserk
  • delusional
  • sociopathic
  • off one's rocker
  • oddball
  • delusionary
  • out of one's mind
  • off one's gourd
  • tetched
  • off one's head
  • disordered
  • hysteric
  • raving
  • out of one's head
  • aberrant
  • nuclear
  • ape
  • bananas
  • witless
  • paranoic
  • potty
  • pixilated
  • amok
  • obsessive-compulsive
  • monomaniac
  • monomaniacal
  • pixillated
  • fixated
  • teched
  • frenzied
  • amuck
  • senseless
  • wigged-out

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

  • sane
  • sound
  • rational
  • balanced
  • compos mentis
  • clear
  • reasonable
  • judicious
  • sensible
  • lucid
  • normal
  • wise
  • healthy
  • uncrazy
  • well-adjusted
  • unneurotic
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