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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: affected with madness or insanity; "a man who had gone mad" [syn: brainsick, crazy, demented, disturbed, mad, sick, unbalanced, unhinged]

Merriam Webster's

adjective Date: 1652 upset, unglued; especially mentally deranged <attacked by an unhinged extremist>

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

If you describe someone's behaviour or performance as unhinged, you are critical of it because it seems wild and uncontrollable. (JOURNALISM) The phrase 'yeah yeah yeah' can rarely have been delivered with so much unhinged passion. ADJ [disapproval]

Moby Thesaurus

abnormal, bereft of reason, brainsick, crackbrained, cracked, crazed, crazy, daft, deluded, demented, deprived of reason, deranged, disarranged, disjointed, dislocated, disoriented, displaced, distraught, flighty, hallucinated, insane, irrational, loco, lunatic, mad, maddened, manic, mazed, mental, mentally deficient, meshuggah, moon-struck, non compos, non compos mentis, not all there, not right, odd, of unsound mind, off, out, out of gear, out of joint, psycho, queer, reasonless, senseless, sick, stark-mad, stark-staring mad, strange, tetched, touched, unbalanced, unjointed, unsane, unsettled, unsound, wandering, witless