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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

out of one's tree en · ADP

Pronunciation

Meanings

  1. (slang) Crazy; unhinged; irrational.
    • Clay had learned to bring a book with him when he took Henry shopping; otherwise, he would go out of his tree with boredom. 2003, Diane Chamberlain, Kiss River, Mira, →ISBN, page 79:
    • I, again jokingly finalized: that to believe her own hypothesis, she had to be out of her tree, […] 2009, Terry Stocker, The Paleolithic Paradigm, AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 324:
    • He was singing and sobbing and carrying on, out of his tree with alcohol, […] 2010, Helen Simpson, In-Flight Entertainment: Stories, Knopf, →ISBN:
    • "'You outta your tree?' yelped Stan.'Choo say [Voldemort's] name for?'" 1999, J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban:

Antonyms

in one's right mind

Synonyms

out of one's skull · out of one's box · out of one's mind · out of one's head · out there · out of one's gourd · off one's tree