English noun: insane asylum | |||
1. | insane asylum (artifact) a hospital for mentally incompetent or unbalanced person | ||
Synonyms | asylum, institution, mental home, mental hospital, mental institution, psychiatric hospital | ||
Broader (hypernym) | hospital, infirmary | ||
Narrower (hyponym) | Bedlam, booby hatch, crazy house, cuckoo's nest, funny farm, funny house, loony bin, madhouse, nut house, nuthouse, sanatorium, snake pit | ||