What is another word for mentally ill?

Synonyms for mentally ill
men·tally ill

This thesaurus page includes all potential synonyms, words with the same meaning and similar terms for the word mentally ill.

Princeton's WordNet0.0 / 0 votes

  1. mentally ill, unsound, unstableadjective

    suffering from severe mental illness

    "of unsound mind"

    Synonyms:
    bad, unfit, fallacious, unstable, precarious, unsound, fluid

    Antonyms:
    sane

How to pronounce mentally ill?

How to say mentally ill in sign language?

Words popularity by usage frequency

rankingword
#841bad
#5086fluid
#10488unstable
#29642unfit
#37328precarious
#53805unsound
#74880fallacious

How to use mentally ill in a sentence?

  1. Ohio Gov. John Kasich:

    If you don't help the mentally ill, they end up in a prison or in a jail or on the streets. There's a societal cost to that that's ongoing, if you don't help the working poor to figure out a way to become independent, there's a societal to cost to that as well.

  2. Malcolm Reiman:

    You would walk down the subway steps every day, and all you could smell was urine; it was littered with muggers and mentally-ill people everywhere, subways were truly terrifying places.

  3. George Loney:

    Like every other day, I go check on them, they are mentally ill. [I] went to go check on him…he answered the door; he was naked and there was blood everywhere, so I called the cops.

  4. Grant Duwe:

    Part of the blowback with connecting mental illness to mass shootings is the fear that mentally ill people will be stigmatized, that’s what we try to be careful with, most of the people with serious mental illness are not violent.

  5. Brian Schatz:

    The tech industry is going to come at this bill, and every other kids’ online safety bill, with everything it’s got, but the burden of proof is on those who want to protect the status quo, because the status quo is making a whole generation of users mentally ill.


Translations for mentally ill

From our Multilingual Translation Dictionary

  • πνευματικά άρρωστοςGreek
  • mielialahäiriöinen, mielisairasFinnish
  • मानसिक रूप से बीमारHindi
  • bolnav mintalRomanian

Get even more translations for mentally ill »

Translation

Find a translation for the mentally ill synonym in other languages:

Select another language:

  • - Select -
  • 简体中文 (Chinese - Simplified)
  • 繁體中文 (Chinese - Traditional)
  • Español (Spanish)
  • Esperanto (Esperanto)
  • 日本語 (Japanese)
  • Português (Portuguese)
  • Deutsch (German)
  • العربية (Arabic)
  • Français (French)
  • Русский (Russian)
  • ಕನ್ನಡ (Kannada)
  • 한국어 (Korean)
  • עברית (Hebrew)
  • Gaeilge (Irish)
  • Українська (Ukrainian)
  • اردو (Urdu)
  • Magyar (Hungarian)
  • मानक हिन्दी (Hindi)
  • Indonesia (Indonesian)
  • Italiano (Italian)
  • தமிழ் (Tamil)
  • Türkçe (Turkish)
  • తెలుగు (Telugu)
  • ภาษาไทย (Thai)
  • Tiếng Việt (Vietnamese)
  • Čeština (Czech)
  • Polski (Polish)
  • Bahasa Indonesia (Indonesian)
  • Românește (Romanian)
  • Nederlands (Dutch)
  • Ελληνικά (Greek)
  • Latinum (Latin)
  • Svenska (Swedish)
  • Dansk (Danish)
  • Suomi (Finnish)
  • فارسی (Persian)
  • ייִדיש (Yiddish)
  • հայերեն (Armenian)
  • Norsk (Norwegian)
  • English (English)

Citation

Use the citation below to add these synonyms to your bibliography:

Style:MLAChicagoAPA

"mentally ill." Synonyms.com. STANDS4 LLC, 2024. Web. 2 Jun 2024. <https://www.synonyms.com/synonym/mentally+ill>.

Discuss these mentally ill synonyms with the community:

0 Comments

    Are we missing a good synonym for mentally ill?

    Free, no signup required:

    Add to Chrome

    Get instant synonyms for any word that hits you anywhere on the web!

    Free, no signup required:

    Add to Firefox

    Get instant synonyms for any word that hits you anywhere on the web!

    Browse Synonyms.com

    Quiz

    Are you a human thesaurus?

    »
    What's the synonym of twee?
    A hopefully
    B precious
    C gift
    D tasteless

    Nearby & related entries:

    Alternative searches for mentally ill: