Psychiatry, dementia, dementedness, insaneness; distraction, disorientation, unbalance, unsoundness; mental illness, loss of reason, unsound mind, diseased mind; craziness, SI. kookiness, Inf. nuttiness, daftness, brainsickness; eccentricity, oddness, queerness; All SI. balminess, bugginess, screwiness, wackiness, goofiness.
2. psychosis, neurosis, psychoneurosis; schizophrenia, Psychiatry, dementia praecox, monomania, automania, dipsomania, pyromania, delusion of grandeur; senility, anility, dotage, Psychiatry, amentia; Psychol. kleptomania, Psychol, split personality; All Psychiatry. melancholia, hypochondria, paranoia, mania, lys-sophobia, fugue, alienation, delusion.
3. frenzy, franticness, furor, delirium, phrenitis, anoesis, hysteria; Pathol, delirium tremens, blue devils, SI. the horrors, SI. jimjams; ranting, raving, storming, foaming at the mouth; storminess, fierceness, tumult, tumultuousness, turbulence, violence.
4. absurdity, absurdness, silliness, inanity, fatuousness, sottage, foolishness, folly; irrationality, illogic, illogicality, illogicalness, unreasonableness; senselessness, nonsense, nonsensicalness, nonsensicality, Obs. morology, pointlessness; ridiculousness, ridiculosity, ludicrousness; asininity, imbecility, idiocy, Inf. moronism, Inf. moronity; light-headedness, harebrainedness; childishness, puerility, immaturity.
5. impracticality, unsensibleness, preposterousness, unreasonableness; inappropriateness, impropriety, ineptitude, ineptness, incongruity, inconsistency; imprudence, indiscretion; irresponsibility, carelessness, unwariness, foolhardiness, recklessness.
insatiable, adj. 1. insatiate, unappeasable, unquenchable, omnivorous; greedy, desirous, cupidi-nous, avaricious, avid, esurient; hungry, craving, grasping, exacting, extortionate, acquisitive, SI. grab-by, predacious, rapacious.
2. voracious, ravenous, ravening, devouring, gluttonous, gormandizing, cormorant, edacious; openmouthed, hoggish, piggish, porcine, swinish, gross; unsatisfied, unsated, famished, dry, athirst, thirsty, parched, arid,
inscribe, v. 1. engrave, enscroll, imprint; impress, stamp, blaze, brand, mark, put a mark or seal on; write or print on, letter, pen, write down, put in writing, set down, Rare, scribe.
2. autograph, give [s.o.] one's autograph, sign, put one's John Henry or John Hancock on, endorse, docket; address, dedicate, make an inscription; scrawl, scribble, dash off.
3. enroll, enlist, register, poll, enter one's name on the roll, put [s.o.] on the list, sign [s.o.] up, Archaic. list; catalogue, inventory, record, tally, Bookkeeping. post.
inscription, n. 1. epigraph, engraving, epitaph, legend, quotation, words; dedication, address, message, line, note, notation, entry, Inf memorandum, Inf. memo; autograph, signature, hand, mark, John Hancock, John Henry, endorsement, stroke or dash of the pen.
2. engrossment, engraving, inscribing, writing, handwriting, penmanship, calligraphy,
inscrutable, adj. 1. impenetrable, incomprehensible, uncomprehensible, undiscoverable; hidden, concealed, secret, cryptic, perdu, occult; poker-faced, deadpan, sphinxlike.
2. mysterious, arcane, inexplicable, unexplainable, in-solvable, insoluble, unaccountable, Obs. inextricable; puzzling, baffling, enigmatic, enigmatical; unfathomable, unknowable, incognoscible, indecipherable, undecipherable, past or beyond comprehension, beyond understanding.