mentally ill

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mentally ill

adj.

Having a mental illness.

n. (used with a pl. verb) Often Offensive

People who are mentally ill considered as a group. Often used with the.

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Adj.

mentally ill - suffering from severe mental illness; "of unsound mind"

unsound, unstable

insane - afflicted with or characteristic of mental derangement; "was declared insane"; "insane laughter"

mentally ill

adjective

Afflicted with or exhibiting irrationality and mental unsoundness:

brainsick, crazy, daft, demented, disordered, distraught, dotty, insane, lunatic, mad, maniac, maniacal, moonstruck, off, touched, unbalanced, unsound, wrong.

Informal: bonkers, cracked, daffy, gaga, loony.

Slang: bananas, batty, buggy, cuckoo, fruity, loco, nuts, nutty, screwy, wacky.

Chiefly British: crackers.

Law: non compos mentis.

Idioms: around the bend, crazy as a loon, mad as a hatter, not all there, nutty as a fruitcake, off one's head, off one's rocker, of unsound mind, out of one's mind, sick in the head, stark raving mad.

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