| n. | 1. | An house or institution where insane persons are confined; an insane asylum; a bedlam; - usually used in a deprecatory sense. |
| 2. | A chaotic, raucus or highly disordered situation. |
| Noun | 1. | madhouse - pejorative terms for an insane asylumSynonyms: booby hatch, crazy house, cuckoo's nest, funny farm, funny house, loony bin, nut house, nuthouse, sanatorium, snake pit, Bedlam |