Synonyms and Antonyms of haywire
- she gradually went haywire after the tragic death of her husband
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]
dotty, fey, loopy, off, potty [chiefly British], teched (or tetched), touched
aberrant, delirious, delusional, delusionary, disordered, disturbed, neurotic, obsessive-compulsive, paranoiac (also paranoic), paranoid (also paranoidal), schizoid, schizophrenic, sociopathic
eccentric, odd, oddball, pixilated (also pixillated), queer, strange
amok (or amuck), ape, ballistic, bananas, berserk, nuclear
distracted, distraught, frantic, frenzied, haywire, hysterical (also hysteric), raving, wigged-out
around the bend, off one's gourd, off one's head, off one's rocker, out of one's head (or mind), out to lunch [slang]