Cuckoo and Mental

Cuckoo

Cuckoo adjective - Having or showing a very abnormal or sick state of mind.
Usage example: a cuckoo woman who wandered around town carefully gathering up useless trash

Mental and cuckoo are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Mental" instead an adjective "Cuckoo".

Nearby Word: cuckooing

Mental

Mental adjective - Having or showing a very abnormal or sick state of mind.
Usage example: humane treatment of mental patients

Cuckoo and mental are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Cuckoo" instead an adjective "Mental".

Nearby Words: mentality, mentally, mentation

Both words in one sentence

  • Series / The Magicians Cuckoo Nest: In "The World In The Walls", Quentin wakes up to find himself in his old mental hospital and is told that he has been hallucinating Brakebills.
  • While in the mental ward, a series of events plays out very similarly to those of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest in which Danny DeVito played the minor role of Martini.
  • Winslow calls the mental health center because she keeps telling him the same thing and expecting different results; he thinks she's gone cuckoo.
    Source: Ironic Echo
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