Bedlam
Bedlam noun - A place where insane people are cared for.
Usage example: French physician Philippe Pinel was instrumental in the transformation of bedlams from filthy hellholes to well-ordered, humane institutions
Sanatorium
Sanatorium noun - Pejorative terms for an insane asylum.
Show all Definitions
Synonyms for Sanatorium
Bedlam is a synonym for sanatorium in mental institution topic. You can use "Bedlam" instead a noun "Sanatorium", if it concerns topics such as insane asylum.
Nearby Word: sanatory
Mutual synonyms
Related pairs
- institution and bedlam
- institution and sanatorium
- asylum and bedlam
- asylum and sanatorium
- mental hospital and bedlam
- mental hospital and sanatorium
- mental institution and bedlam
- mental institution and sanatorium
- insane asylum and bedlam
- insane asylum and sanatorium
- booby hatch and bedlam
- booby hatch and sanatorium
- crazy house and bedlam
- crazy house and sanatorium
Both words in one sentence
-
Badass Longcoat Bedlam House: If you're poor, you don't want to get sent to a sanatorium.
-
Bedlam House: The saga of Miss Bigelow (see Oral Fixation below) suggests she wound up in one of these, in that she "spent her life shut up in some/Disgusting sanatorium." Big Electric Switch: This is used to activate the Television-Chocolate Room's camera.
Cite this Source
Sanatorium and Bedlam. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 21, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/bedlam/sanatorium
Bedlam & Sanatorium. N.p., 2016. Web. 21 Jul. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/bedlam/sanatorium>.
Sanatorium or Bedlam. 2016. Accessed July 21, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/bedlam/sanatorium.
Google Ngram Viewer shows how "bedlam" and "sanatorium" have occurred on timeline