insane asylum

Questions about insane asylum

What does insane asylum mean?

insane asylum means "a hospital for mentally incompetent or unbalanced person".

What is another word for insane asylum?

Close synonyms include mental hospital, psychiatric hospital, mental institution, institution, mental home. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is insane asylum a common word?

insane asylum is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.