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psychiatric hospital

noun · 2 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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noun

Meaning 1

A medical facility specializing in inpatient mental health treatment.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

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Meaning relationships

Synonyms: mental hospital, bedlam, bin, booby-hatch, booby house, bughouse, crazy house, cuckoo's nest, funny farm, happy hotel, insane asylum, laughing academy, loony bin, lunatic asylum, madhouse, mental asylum, mental home, mental hotel, grippy sock vacation, mental health center, mental health hospital, mental institution, nutfarm, nuthouse, psych, psych hospital, psychiatric hospital, psychopathic hospital, psychiatric ward, psych ward, special hospital, Tanjung Rambutan, whack shack

Antonyms: none provided

noun

Meaning 2

a hospital for mentally incompetent or unbalanced person

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

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Meaning relationships

Synonyms: mental hospital, mental institution, institution, mental home, insane asylum, asylum

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: hospital, infirmary

Narrower terms: Bedlam, booby hatch, crazy house, cuckoo's nest, funny farm, funny house, loony bin, madhouse, nut house, nuthouse, sanatorium, snake pit

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Inflections and variants

psychiatric hospitals — plural

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Hypernyms: hospital, infirmary

Hyponyms: Bedlam, booby hatch, crazy house, cuckoo's nest, funny farm, funny house, loony bin, madhouse, nut house, nuthouse, sanatorium, snake pit

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