Synonyms of bats

bats 1 of 3

adjective

ˈbats 

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

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

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

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

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

2

as in licks

to strike repeatedly

batted the piñata until it finally broke open

Synonyms & Similar Words

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

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

Examples of bats in a Sentence

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Adjective

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