Bats
Bats adjective - Having or showing a very abnormal or sick state of mind.
Usage example: by film's end it's obvious that faded movie star Norma Desmond is completely bats
Deranged
Deranged adjective - Having or showing a very abnormal or sick state of mind.
Usage example: a deranged prisoner who had been in that rat-infested hole for 20 years
Bats and deranged are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Bats" instead an adjective "Deranged".
Nearby Words: derangement, deranging
Mutual synonyms
Both words in one sentence
- In Ashes to Ashes, Alex Drake is quite sure that the whole experience of being in 1981 is a hallucination, and repeatedly says so out loud, but, again, nobody bats an eyelid or suspects that she's deranged.
Source: Up the Real Rabbit Hole
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