Synonyms for snake pit
Most common
nut house looney bin booby hatch sanatorium hell hell on earth
Synonyms by meaning
Noun
1. Funny farm
nut house, looney bin, booby hatch, sanatorium, sanitarium US, bedlam, madhouse, funny farm slang, cuckoo's nest slang
2. Hell
hell, hell on earth, hell hole, inferno, the pits slang
Definitions
- n. 1
A pit filled with snakes.
- n. 2
Any institution (such as a school, prison, hospital, etc.) run in an inept or inhumane way, or full of hostile or treacherous people.
Related words
- Other spellings
- snakepit
Example sentences
- sanatorium Tom became sick and spent time in a sanatorium.
- hell I'd rather live in hell than in the United States.
By length
- 4 letters
- hell1
- 6 letters
- bedlam2
- 7 letters
- inferno3
- 8 letters
- madhouse2
- 10 letters
- sanatorium, sanitarium
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (bedlam2 = 2 syllables).
In other languages
- Français
- nid de vipères