haywire
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Synonyms & Antonyms for haywire
Synonyms
balmy, barmy [chiefly British], bats, batty, bedlam, bonkers, brainsick, bughouse [slang], certifiable, crackbrained, cracked, crackers, crackpot, cranky [dialect], crazed, crazy, cuckoo, daffy, daft, demented, deranged, fruity [slang], gaga, insane, kooky (also kookie), loco [slang], loony (also looney), loony tunes (or looney tunes), lunatic, mad, maniacal (also maniac), mental, meshuga (or meshugge), moonstruck, non compos mentis, nuts, nutty, psycho, psychotic, scatty [chiefly British], screwy, unbalanced, unhinged, unsound, wacko (also whacko), wacky (also whacky), wud [chiefly Scottish]
Antonyms
balanced, compos mentis, sane, sound, uncrazy
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The findings, published Tuesday in the medical journal Nature Communications, suggest that disrupting the stomach's delicate balance of acids and enzymes may cause our immune systems to go haywire, triggering allergies that didn't previously exist. — Arman Azad, CNN, "Your heartburn drugs may be giving you allergies, study suggests," 30 July 2019 Andrea Bechert’s superb set looks like IKEA modular shelving gone haywire — a tall jumble of cubbies filled with books, reel-to-real recorders, file boxes and other storage solutions. — Sam Hurwitt, The Mercury News, "Review: Delightful ‘Language Archive’ finds TheatreWorks on a roll," 15 July 2019 In the places with lots of jobs, primarily coastal cities, the real estate market has gone absolutely haywire. — Alexis C. Madrigal, The Atlantic, "Why Housing Policy Feels Like Generational Warfare," 13 June 2019 Things go haywire from there, with Sach’s new set of guildines, the Paradox Bullets, to guide Ruscha. — Steff Yotka, Vogue, "Tom Sachs Unveils His Nike Mars Yard Overshoe Collaboration in His New Film “Paradox Bullets”," 6 Oct. 2018 Yet — and here’s the subtlety in their work — these nonunique extensions of space-time don’t mean that Einstein’s equations go haywire beyond the horizon. — Quanta Magazine, "Mathematicians Disprove Conjecture Made to Save Black Holes," 17 May 2018 So when some of the X-Men — the franchises are related — report that a young mutant (Julian Dennison, of Hunt for the Wilderpeople) has gone dangerously haywire, Deadpool swears to protect him. — Gary Thompson, Philly.com, "'Deadpool 2': An offbeat action comedy with legs. Gross, little baby legs," 16 May 2018 When the speediest planet goes retrograde, these areas of our lives have the tendency to go haywire. — Erika W. Smith, refinery29.com, "How To Survive This Month's Mercury Retrograde," 5 July 2019 The human body goes haywire when hurled into space and away from the familiar environment of the Earth's surface. — Anchorage Daily News, "What the Space Age taught us: Earth is the best of all possible worlds," 23 June 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'haywire.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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