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
Mutual synonyms
Both words in one sentence
-
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.
Source: Series / The Magicians - 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.
Source: Actor Allusion / Live-Action TV - 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
Cite this Source
Mental and Cuckoo. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 29, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/cuckoo/mental
Cuckoo & Mental. N.p., 2016. Web. 29 Jul. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/cuckoo/mental>.
Mental or Cuckoo. 2016. Accessed July 29, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/cuckoo/mental.
Google Ngram Viewer shows how "cuckoo" and "mental" have occurred on timeline