Synonyms of bats

bats 1 of 3

adjective

as in nuts

having or showing a very abnormal or sick state of mind

by film's end it's obvious that faded movie star Norma Desmond is completely bats

Synonyms & Similar Words

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

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

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

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

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bats

2 of 3

noun

plural of bat

1

as in hits

a hard strike with a part of the body or an instrument

a sharp bat with a rolled-up newspaper and that fly was a goner

Synonyms & Similar Words

• hits
• blows
• punches
• thumps
• thuds
• strokes
• swipes
• knocks
• whacks
• pounds
• slaps
• licks
• pokes
• pelts
• smacks
• bangs
• beats
• clips
• hooks
• slugs
• socks
• lashes
• spanks
• stingers
• clouts
• switches
• swats
• stripes
• swings
• claps
• biffs
• slams
• hands
• boxes
• belts
• haymakers
• chops
• raps
• thwacks
• knees
• bops
• hacks
• cuffs
• whams
• buffets
• welts
• smashes
• bashes
• cracks
• kicks
• picks
• whaps
• lickings
• wallops
• busts
• dabs
• fillips
• larrups
• counters
• douses
• counterstrokes
• plumps
• sidewinders
• whops
• counterblows
• beatings
• counter-strokes
• shivers
• rights
• body blows
• crunchers
• counter-blows
• counterpunches
• rabbit punches
• batterings
• roundhouses
• whips
• uppercuts
• lefts
• right-handers
• knockdowns
• bastinadoes
• knockouts
• thrashings
• sucker punches
• drubbings
• pastings
• bastinades
• whippings
• kayos
• one-twos
• wallopings
• KOs

2

as in canes

a heavy rigid stick used as a weapon or for punishment

riot policemen armed with bats and tear gas

Synonyms & Similar Words

• canes
• batons
• mallets
• staves
• hammers
• clubs
• bludgeons
• rods
• staffs
• nightsticks
• maces
• cudgels
• beetles
• truncheons
• shillelaghs
• billy clubs
• bastinadoes
• waddies
• billies
• saps
• bastinades
• shillalahs
• rungs
• staves
• knobkerries
• birches
• rattans
• blackjacks
• sledgehammers
• hickories
• mauls
• switches
• gavels
• crosiers
• crooks
• croziers
• crabsticks
• walking sticks
• whangees

bats

3 of 3

verb

present tense third-person singular of bat

1

as in knocks

to deliver a blow to (someone or something) usually in a strong vigorous manner

batted the lamp off the table with one strike

Synonyms & Similar Words

• hits
• knocks
• punches
• strikes
• bangs
• smacks
• slaps
• pounds
• clips
• slams
• claps
• whacks
• swipes
• cracks
• hammers
• boxes
• nails
• whales
• slugs
• clocks
• socks
• clouts
• thumps
• bashes
• bludgeons
• kicks
• swats
• taps
• licks
• tags
• flicks
• thwacks
• batters
• raps
• belts
• bops
• jabs
• pokes
• smites
• chops
• bobs
• biffs
• wallops
• zaps
• strokes
• busts
• pastes
• bonks
• stabs
• bumps
• clobbers
• pelts
• shoves
• pushes
• peppers
• bunts
• mauls
• skulls
• stamps
• lashes
• beats
• pommels
• butts
• knees
• hangs one on
• cuffs
• slogs
• clubs
• buffets
• laces
• decks
• brains
• spears
• canes
• pummels
• levels
• slashes
• mangles
• scuffs
• roughs
• bungs
• creams
• sledgehammers
• drubs
• floors
• whips
• dumps
• cudgels
• prods
• switches
• beans
• sledges
• fells
• conks
• knocks down
• flails
• jostles
• saps
• rabbit-punches
• sucker punches
• thrashes
• lambasts
• lambastes
• bowls (down or over)
• flogs

2

as in batters

to strike repeatedly

batted the piñata until it finally broke open

Synonyms & Similar Words

• batters
• licks
• lashes
• pounds
• pelts
• hides
• hits
• whips
• attacks
• beats
• knocks
• whales
• thumps
• clubs
• hammers
• punches
• assaults
• does
• smashes
• mauls
• boxes
• slaps
• paddles
• slates
• raids
• bludgeons
• chops
• spanks
• storms
• slams
• pommels
• birches
• bashes
• switches
• belts
• works over
• curries
• buffets
• punches out
• tans
• laces
• wallops
• whacks
• pummels
• wounds
• thrashes
• threshes
• lathers
• smacks
• swipes
• drubs
• whaps
• fibs
• socks
• flogs
• bungs up
• bastes
• belabors
• clouts
• cracks
• swats
• slogs
• whups
• beats up on
• lambastes
• whops
• thwacks
• canes
• cudgels
• tromps
• leathers
• lams
• rushes
• flagellates
• cuffs
• whams
• lambasts
• blackjacks
• scourges
• straps
• pastes
• clobbers
• busts
• cowhides
• horsewhips
• assails
• besets
• rawhides
• roughs (up)
• lacerates
• whomps
• lays on
• messes (up)
• descends (on or upon)
• gores
• mutilates
• pistol-whips
• maims
• jumps (on)
• fustigates
• mangles
• pounces (on or upon)

3

as in roams

to move about from place to place aimlessly

on Sunday afternoons we'd pile into Father's car and bat around the countryside

Synonyms & Similar Words

• roams
• wanders
• cruises
• drifts
• strolls
• floats
• roves
• ranges
• maunders
• galavants
• gypsies
• traipses
• gallivants
• hobos
• rambles
• mooches
• meanders
• gads (about)
• knocks (about)
• tramps
• saunters
• mopes
• vagabonds
• ambles
• kicks around
• strays
• dawdles
• straggles
• mills (about or around)