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Dictionary: in·sane   (ĭn-sān') pronunciation
adj.
    1. Of, exhibiting, or afflicted with insanity.
    2. Characteristic of or associated with persons afflicted with insanity: an insane laugh; insane babbling.
    3. Intended for use by such persons: an insane asylum.
  1. Immoderate; wild: insane jealousy.
  2. Very foolish; absurd: took insane risks behind the wheel.

[Latin īnsānus : in-, not; see in-1 + sānus, sane, healthy.]

insanely in·sane'ly adv.
insaneness in·sane'ness n.

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Thesaurus: insane
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adjective

  1. Afflicted with or exhibiting irrationality and mental unsoundness: brainsick, crazy, daft, demented, disordered, distraught, dotty, lunatic, mad, maniac, maniacal, mentally ill, moonstruck, off, touched, unbalanced, unsound, wrong. Informal bonkers, cracked, daffy, gaga, loony. Slang bananas, batty, buggy, cuckoo, fruity, loco, nuts, nutty, screwy, wacky. Chiefly British crackers. Law non compos mentis. Idioms: around the bend, crazy as a loon, mad as a hatter, not all there, nutty as a fruitcake, offout ofone's head, off one's rocker, of unsound mind, out of one's mind, sick in the head, stark raving mad. See sane/insane.
  2. So senseless as to be laughable: absurd, foolish, harebrained, idiotic, imbecilic, lunatic, mad, moronic, nonsensical, preposterous, silly, softheaded, tomfool, unearthly, zany. Informal cockeyed, crazy, loony, loopy. Slang balmy2, dippy, dopey, jerky, sappy, wacky. See ability/inability, knowledge/ignorance.

Antonyms: insane
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adj

Definition: mentally ill; foolish
Antonyms: balanced, healthy, rational, reasonable, sane, sensible, sound, well


Wikipedia: INSANE (engine)
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INSANE
Developer(s) LucasArts and Vincent Lee
Operating system PC
Type Game Engine

INSANE is a proprietary INteractive Streaming ANimation Engine developed at LucasArts, primarily by programmer/game designer Vincent Lee. Using custom video compression technology, it greatly compresses moving images so that high quality full-screen videos can be displayed even in hi-res graphics modes on the PC.

An early version was first developed for Star Wars: Rebel Assault, and was followed by a much enhanced version in Star Wars: Rebel Assault II - The Hidden Empire and then in Full Throttle, Outlaws, and The Dig. It was also used in the 1998 games Star Wars: Droid Works, Mysteries of the Sith, and Mortimer and The Riddles of the Medallion, and it's compression technology was incorporated into Star Wars: Behind the Magic, Star Wars Episode I - Insider's Guide, and Jar Jar's Journey Adventure Book. The use for Full Throttle caused some problems since INSANE was intended to be photorealistic, contrasting to the general cartoony feeling. The rendered environment had to be scaled down to match to the rest of the game world. Later enhancements were made to the compression technology to optimize it for the cartoon style imagery used in Outlaws.


Translations: Insane
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Dansk (Danish)
adj. - vanvittig, skør, tosset, sindssyg

idioms:

  • insane asylum    sindssygeanstalt

Nederlands (Dutch)
geschift, krankzinnig, de gekken

Français (French)
adj. - (gén) fou, insensé, démentiel, (Jur) aliéné

idioms:

  • insane asylum    asile de fous

Deutsch (German)
adj. - wahnsinnig, geisteskrank, irrsinnig

idioms:

  • insane asylum    Irrenanstalt

Ελληνική (Greek)
adj. - παράφρων, φρενοβλαβής

idioms:

  • insane asylum    άσυλο φρενοβλαβών

Italiano (Italian)
demente, pazzo

idioms:

  • insane asylum    manicomio

Português (Portuguese)
adj. - doido, sem sentido, insano
n. pl. - os doentes (m pl) mentais

idioms:

  • insane asylum    hospital (m) para doentes mentais

Русский (Russian)
душевнобольной

idioms:

  • insane asylum    психиатрическая больница

Español (Spanish)
adj. - demente, insensato, loco

idioms:

  • insane asylum    manicomio, nosocomio, sanatorio

Svenska (Swedish)
adj. - sinnesjuk, vansinnig, galen

中文(简体)(Chinese (Simplified))
患精神病的, 极愚蠢的

idioms:

  • insane asylum    精神病院

中文(繁體)(Chinese (Traditional))
adj. - 患精神病的, 極愚蠢的

idioms:

  • insane asylum    精神病院

한국어 (Korean)
adj. - 미친, 광기의

日本語 (Japanese)
adj. - 正気でない, 気違いじみた, 非常識な, 狂気の

idioms:

  • insane asylum    精神病院

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(صفه) مخبول, جنوني, معد للمجانين‏

עברית (Hebrew)
adj. - ‮לא-שפוי, משוגע, מטורף‬


 
 
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