insane
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- (can be offensive) If you are insane you can not think well because of mental illness.
The use of insane with this meaning can be offensive, although it still has a technical use in law, meaning that somebody is not able to understand that their own actions are wrong or not able to understand a trial process.
- He was sent to a mental hospital because he was insane.
- Nothing he signed can be used because he was insane when he signed.
- An insane idea is very strange, like something a crazy person might think of.
- That has got to be the most insane thing I have ever heard.
- If something is insane it does not make sense. It is strange in a bad way.
- The price of gas these days is insane.