What is another word for mad person?

Pronunciation: [mˈad pˈɜːsən] (IPA)

There are numerous synonyms for describing a mad person, some of the common ones include mentally ill, disturbed, mentally unstable, insane, crazy, deranged, unhinged, and maniacal. The usage of the word "mad" can be quite subjective and could carry negative connotations, especially in some cultures or contexts. Hence, it is essential to use appropriate synonyms while referring to individuals struggling with mental health and emotional distress. Instead of using derogatory words, it is essential to adopt a compassionate approach while talking about mental health issues and the people affected by them. Using appropriate language could help reduce stigma and advocate for positive change.

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A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

Famous quotes with Mad person

  • A sage since old days in every generation is always considered a mad person by the foolish people who have had either an empty or a materialistic head over their shoulders in this selfish world.
    Anuj Somany
  • For every age there is a popular idea about what madness is, what causes it, and how a mad person should look and behave; and it's usually these popular ideas, rather than those of medical professionals, that turn up in songs and stories and plays and books.
    Margaret Atwood
  • What Elizabethan playwrights learned from the Greek classics was not theories of insanity, but dramatic practice — that is, madness is a dandy theatrical element. It focuses the audience's attention and increases suspense, since you never know what a mad person may get up to next; and Shakespeare himself makes use of it in many forms. In King Lear, there's a scene in which one man pretending to be mad, another who has really gone mad, and a third who has probably always been a little addled, are brought together for purposes of comparison, irony, pathos, and tour de force acting. In Hamlet, there are two variations — Hamlet himself, who assumes madness, and Ophelia, who really does go winsomely bonkers. In MacBeth, it's Lady MacBeth who snaps.
    Margaret Atwood
  • As I was writing about Grace Marks, and about her interlude in the Asylum, I came to see her in context — the context of other people's opinions, both the popular images of madness and the scientific explanations for it available at the time. A lot of what was believed and said on the subject appears like sheer lunacy to us now. But we shouldn't be too arrogant — how many of our own theories will look silly when those who follow us have come up with something better? But whatever the scientists may come up with, writers and artists will continue to portray altered mental states, simply because few aspects of our nature fascinate people so much. The so-called mad person will always represent a possible future for every member of the audience — who knows when such a malady may strike? When "mad," at least in literature, you aren't yourself; you take on another self, a self that is either not you at all, or a truer, more elemental one than the person you're used to seeing in the mirror. You're in danger of becoming, in Shakespeare's works, a mere picture or beast, and in Susanna Moodie's words, a mere machine; or else you may become an inspired prophet, a truth-sayer, a shaman, one who oversteps the boundaries of the ordinarily visible and audible, and also, and especially, the ordinarily sayable. Portraying this process is deep power for the artist, partly because it's a little too close to the process of artistic creation itself, and partly because the prospect of losing our self and being taken over by another, unfamiliar self is one of our deepest human fears.
    Margaret Atwood

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