asylum - Similar and Opposite Words

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Noun

a hospital for mentally incompetent or unbalanced person

Synonyms

• asylum
• insane asylum
• institution
• mental home
• mental hospital
• mental institution
• psychiatric hospital

More generic

• hospital
• infirmary

More specific

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

Noun

a shelter from danger or hardship

Synonyms

• asylum
• refuge
• sanctuary

More generic

• shelter

More specific

• harbor
• harbour
• safe house
• safehold

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