out of one's mind

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aʊt əv wʌnz maɪnd/

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Prepositional phrase

out of one's mind

1. (idiomatic) Insane, crazy.

   You're out of your mind if you think you can jump that far.

   • 1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Grove Press, published 1959, →OCLC:

     Or was Erskine out of his mind? And he himself Watt was he not perhaps slightly deranged? And Mr. Knott himself, was he quite right in his head?

2. (idiomatic) Temporarily mentally unstable; very distressed.

   When you didn't phone home, we were out of our minds with worry.

3. Away from the focus of one's thoughts.

   Try to put the day's troubles out of your mind and relax.

Synonyms

• (crazy): off one's head, out of one's box, out of one's cotton-picking mind, out of one's gourd, out of one's head, out of one's skull, out of one's wits, out there
• See also Thesaurus:insane.

Antonyms

• (antonym(s) of “temporarily distressed”): in one's right mind
• See also Thesaurus:sane.

Related terms

• wrongminded
• (crazy, temporarily distressed): lose one's mind

Translations

insane

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 發瘋 / 发疯 (zh) (fāfēng)

• Danish: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: järjiltään (fi)
• Galician: fóra de si
• Hebrew: אַראָפּ פֿון זינען (arop fun zinen)
• Hungarian: nincs eszénél, meg van őrülve, elment az esze
• Italian: fuori di testa, fuori di sé, fuori di mente
• Latin: dēmens, impos animī
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: ute å kjøre, ikke rett i hodet

  Nynorsk: ute å køyra, ikkje rett i hovudet

• Polish: szalony (pl), zwariowany (pl)
• Portuguese: fora de si (pt)
• Russian: не в своём уме (ne v svojóm ume)
• Spanish: fuera de la mente de uno, como una cabra, como las maracas de Machín
• Swedish: inte riktigt klok
• Welsh: o ei gof

distressed

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 憂慮 / 忧虑 (zh) (yōulǜ)

• Danish: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: sekaisin (fi)
• Galician: fóra de si
• Hungarian: majd megőrül
• Portuguese: fora de si (pt)
• Russian: вне себя́ (ru) (vne sebjá)
• Spanish: please add this translation if you can