| 单词 | madhouse |
| 释义 | madhouse (once / 9099 pages) n A madhouse is an old fashioned and derogatory word for a psychiatric hospital. It was once quite common to talk about mentally ill people being sent to the madhouse, but that would be offensive today. While the many terms for psychiatric hospital (or the archaic insane asylum), including madhouse and funny farm or loony bin are no longer an acceptable way to talk about mental health care, most of them are commonly used to informally describe confused or chaotic situations. It would make sense to describe a roomful of eight year-olds running around and screaming happily as a madhouse, for example. WORD FAMILYmadhouse: madhouses USAGE EXAMPLESI remember seeing a modern staged production of “Messiah,” best forgotten, that set the action in a madhouse. Washington Post(Dec 22, 2016) “There is a lot of praying, singing, dancing, fireworks; the camp right now is kind of a madhouse,” Peterson said. Seattle Times(Dec 04, 2016) The place was a madhouse; one employee asked Graham whether she had heard about the already-famous party. Washington Post(Nov 27, 2016) n pejorative terms for an insane asylum Syn|Hyper Bedlam, booby hatch, crazy house, cuckoo's nest, funny farm, funny house, loony bin, nut house, nuthouse, sanatorium, snake pit asylum, insane asylum, institution, mental home, mental hospital, mental institution, psychiatric hospital a hospital for mentally incompetent or unbalanced person |
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