in·sane

(ĭn-sān′)

adj.

a. Of, exhibiting, or afflicted with mental derangement. Not used in psychiatric diagnosis.

b. Characteristic of or associated with persons who are mentally deranged: an insane laugh; insane babbling.

c. Intended for use by such persons: an insane asylum.

2. Having been determined to be in a condition that meets the legal definition of insanity.

3. Immoderate; wild: insane jealousy.

4. Very foolish; absurd: took insane risks behind the wheel.

[Latin īnsānus : in-, not; see in-¹ + sānus, sane, healthy.]

in·sane′ly adv.

in·sane′ness n.

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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:

Adv.	1.	insanely - in an insane manner; "she behaved insanely"; "he behaves crazily when he is off his medication"; "the witch cackled madly"; "screaming dementedly" crazily, dementedly, madly sanely - in a sane or lucid manner; "she is behaving rather sanely these days even though we know she is schizophrenic"
	2.	insanely - (used as intensives) extremely; "she was madly in love"; "deadly dull"; "deadly earnest"; "deucedly clever"; "insanely jealous" deucedly, deadly, devilishly, madly intensifier, intensive - a modifier that has little meaning except to intensify the meaning it modifies; "`up' in `finished up' is an intensifier"; "`honestly' in `I honestly don't know' is an intensifier"

Translations

follemente

insanely

[ɪnˈseɪnlɪ] ADV to laugh insanely → reírse como un loco
to be insanely jealous (by nature) → ser terriblemente celoso; (at particular moment) → estar loco de celos

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

insanely

[ɪnˈseɪnli] adv
insanely jealous → d'une jalousie maladive
insanely optimistic → d'un optimisme délirant

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

insanely

adv → irr; (fig inf) → verrückt; jealous → irrsinnig; laugh → wie ein Geisteskranker/eine Geisteskranke

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

insanely

[ɪnˈseɪnlɪ] adv (behave) → da pazzo/a
insanely jealous → follemente geloso/a

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

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Now he alone was blamed for what had happened, he was said to be insanely jealous and subject like his father to fits of bloodthirsty rage.

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Competition, it is needless to say, was at the bottom of this insanely reckless system of trading.

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Even more compelling was the menacing threat that Possum growled, his jaws close-guarding the bone, eyes blazing insanely, the hair rising stiffly on his neck.

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They sometimes gabbled insanely. One huge man was asking of the sky: "Say, where de plank road?

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"But I'm so soft-hearted," I went insanely on, "that I should be sorry to see that happen to such fine fellows as you are.

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She was part of the insanely jumbled muddle of a world which impedes the sensible life.

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Borckman immediately and insanely went back across the million years.

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This gave my aunt such unspeakable satisfaction, that I believe she took a delight in prowling up and down, with her bonnet insanely perched on the top of her head, at times when Mrs.

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He had a great deal of work to do, and could not waste more time on a boy who seemed to him insanely obstinate.

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I sprang upon him, blindly, insanely, and drove the knife into his shoulder.

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Pickwick, taking off his hat and dashing it on the floor, and insanely casting his spectacles into the middle of the kitchen.

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It would send him straight about to the window he had left open, and by that window, be long ladder and dangling rope as absent as they would, he saw himself uncontrollably insanely fatally take his way to the street.

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