Entry Word: madhouse

Function: noun

Meaning: 1 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

Related Words institution; hospice, hospital, sanatorium, sanitarium; home

2 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, hell

Related Words commotion, havoc, pandemonium, racket, ruckus, tumult, turmoil; clamor, clatter, din, hubbub, noise; chaos, confusion, disarrangement, disarray, disorder, maelstrom, mess, muss

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