Synonyms of haywire

haywire 1 of 2

adjective

as in psychotic

having or showing a very abnormal or sick state of mind

she gradually went haywire after the tragic death of her husband

Synonyms & Similar Words

• psychotic
• mad
• nuts
• insane
• lunatic
• crazy
• gaga
• mental
• paranoid
• maniacal
• maniac
• disturbed
• whacky
• screwy
• psycho
• crazed
• paranoidal
• deranged
• whacko
• cuckoo
• looney
• unbalanced
• ballistic
• unhinged
• strange
• wacko
• bedlam
• demented
• cracked
• irrational
• wacky
• nutty
• batty
• around the bend
• loony
• bonkers
• scatty
• depressed
• daft
• crackbrained
• eccentric
• daffy
• moonstruck
• barmy
• kooky
• non compos mentis
• loco
• certifiable
• out to lunch
• meshuga
• foolish
• loony tunes
• odd
• brainsick
• bughouse
• unsound
• unreasonable
• kookie
• obsessed
• bats
• crackpot
• distraught
• off
• frantic
• balmy
• meshugah
• distracted
• meshuggah
• wud
• hysteric
• looney tunes
• cranky
• meshugge
• disordered
• paranoic
• loopy
• fruity
• crackers
• schizophrenic
• fey
• berserk
• neurotic
• off one's rocker
• out of one's mind
• off one's gourd
• schizoid
• off one's head
• hysterical
• aberrant
• amuck
• delirious
• touched
• paranoiac
• nuclear
• out of one's head
• dotty
• queer
• obsessive-compulsive
• sociopathic
• delusionary
• delusional
• oddball
• tetched
• amok
• pixillated
• pixilated
• witless
• teched
• potty
• frenzied
• senseless
• wigged-out
• raving
• fixated
• monomaniacal
• ape
• bananas
• monomaniac

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• sound
• balanced
• sane
• reasonable
• clear
• rational
• normal
• wise
• lucid
• uncrazy
• compos mentis
• sensible
• judicious
• healthy
• well-adjusted
• unneurotic

haywire

2 of 2

adverb

as in amuck

Synonyms & Similar Words

• amuck
• uncontrollably
• crazily
• desperately
• amok
• confusedly
• agitatedly
• frantically
• wild
• hectically
• frenziedly
• feverishly
• berserk
• frenetically
• wildly
• recklessly
• madly
• harum-scarum
• heedlessly
• skittishly
• berserkly
• turbulently
• riotously
• haphazardly
• haphazard
• wantonly
• tumultuously
• helter-skelter
• topsy-turvy
• chaotically
• aimlessly
• pell-mell
• hotheadedly
• hit or miss

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• calmly
• coolly
• peacefully
• serenely
• cooly
• unconcernedly
• mildly
• placidly
• imperturbably
• systematically
• composedly
• meekly
• passively
• orderly
• collectedly
• tamely
• self-possessedly
• methodically
• self-composedly

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