BEDLAM meaning: Chaotic and noisy confusion; disorder

We found 37 dictionaries that define the word bedlam:

General (28 matching dictionaries)

Bedlam, bedlam: Merriam-Webster
bedlam: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
bedlam: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
bedlam: Collins English Dictionary
Bedlam, bedlam: Vocabulary.com
Bedlam, bedlam: Wordnik
bedlam: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
bedlam: Wiktionary
bedlam: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
bedlam: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
bedlam: Infoplease Dictionary
bedlam: Dictionary.com
bedlam: Online Etymology Dictionary
bedlam: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
Bedlam (Brookmyre novel), Bedlam (Kennen novel), Bedlam (Pretty Little Liars), Bedlam (TV series), Bedlam (band), Bedlam (comics), Bedlam (film), Bedlam: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
Bedlam: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
bedlam: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
Bedlam: Rhymezone
bedlam: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
bedlam: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
Bedlam: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
bedlam: FreeDictionary.org
bedlam: Mnemonic Dictionary
Bedlam: The Word Detective
bedlam: TheFreeDictionary.com
bedlam: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)

bedlam: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)

bedlam: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)

online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)

BEDLAM: Acronym Finder
bedlam, bedlam: A Word A Day
bedlam: Wordcraft Dictionary

Religion (1 matching dictionary)

Bedlam: Catholic Encyclopedia

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)

Bedlam: The Folk File
bedlam: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (

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▸ noun:  A place or situation of chaotic uproar, and where confusion prevails.
▸ noun:  (obsolete) An insane person; a lunatic; a madman.
▸ noun:  (obsolete) A lunatic asylum; a madhouse.
▸ noun:  A hamlet in Clint cum Hamlets parish, Harrogate borough, North Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE2661).
▸ noun:  A hamlet in Bitterley parish, south Shropshire, England (OS grid ref SO5877).
▸ noun:  A hamlet in Great Elm parish, Mendip district, Somerset, England (OS grid ref ST7549).

Opposite:

order, calm, quiet

Types:

pandemonium, chaos, mayhem, confusion, disorder, turmoil, uproar, more...

Phrases:

Tom o' Bedlam, tom o bedlam, Back to Bedlam, The Bedlam in Goliath, Yum Yum Bedlam, more...

Adjectives:

perfect, such, general, mystical, sheer, pure, complete, absolute, veritable, total, old

Colors:

crimson, scarlet, vermilion, burgundy, maroon, more...

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