madhouse

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of MADHOUSE

a place where insane people are cared for <it was hard to believe that this place with the bright cheery walls was really a madhouse>

Synonyms asylum, bedlam, institution

Related Words hospital; halfway house, home; hospice, sanatorium, sanitarium, sanitorium

a place of uproar or confusion <our house is always a madhouse on school mornings, with five kids and two dogs running around>

Synonyms babel, bedlam, circus, scrum [British], three-ring circus

Near Antonyms arcadia, heaven, paradise, utopia; order, orderliness, organization; calm, lull, peace, respite; hush, quiet, silence, stillness

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