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Bedlamite

Definition:

A bedlamite refers to a person who is affected by insanity or is mentally unstable.

Sense 1 (Noun):

A bedlamite is a mental patient or someone who has been confined to a mental institution due to mental illness.

Example sentence: The old asylum housed a number of bedlamites in its dark and eerie corridors.

Sense 2 (Adjective):

If something is described as bedlamite, it means it is chaotic, disorderly, or characterized by uproar.

Example sentence: The classroom turned into a bedlamite scene as soon as the students realized they had a substitute teacher.

Sense 3 (Adjective - Local):

In some local contexts, bedlamite can refer to something or someone associated with Bedlam, a historic psychiatric hospital in London.

Example sentence: The exhibit displayed artifacts from Bedlam, shedding light on the lives of the bedlamite patients who once resided there.

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