What are the most frequently used & natural comparative & superlative forms of Insane

[Aamir Tariq]

What are the most frequently used & natural comparative & superlative forms of Insane

Like we have the following forms of the adjective sane.

Normal	Comparative	Superlative
Sane	Saner	Sanest

What are the grammatically correct, most common and the most natural forms of the adjective insane?

Normal	Comparative	Superlative
Insane	insaner	insanest
Insane	more insane	most insane

I looked at the link here.
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/insaner


But there are a lot of things on the internet that are enough to make someone confused. So it's better to ask native speakers how they use them in the most natural ways in their English speaking countries.


Here is my Conclusion

I think unlike "sane", "insane" is two-syllable word, that's why "more insane" and "most insane" or better choices but still I'm not an expert so only native speakers can give me the right answer.


Regards,
Aamir Tariq

 

[Skrej]

Re: What are the most frequently used & natural comparative & superlative forms of In

Some of those two syllable adjectives can follow either rule, and it's the speaker's choice which to follow.

I think I'd personally go with the 'er/est' version for 'insane', but I'm not at all bothered to hear the 'more/most' version. I'm sure others will disagree, and we'll still all be correct.

 

[Aamir Tariq]

Re: What are the most frequently used & natural comparative & superlative forms of In

Some of those two syllable adjectives can follow either rule, and it's the speaker's choice which to follow.

I think I'd personally go with the 'er/est' version for 'insane', but I'm not at all bothered to hear the 'more/most' version. I'm sure others will disagree, and we'll still all be correct.

You mean both the versions are grammatically correct, formal and natural. Thanks for clearing my confusion. I would also like to hear from native English speakers from the UK and Australia too if they prefer one version over the other.

 

[tedmc]

Re: What are the most frequently used & natural comparative & superlative forms of In

Yes, who, in their right mind, would need to compare the degree of insanity unless one is doing a research in psychiatry?

 

[Aamir Tariq]

Re: What are the most frequently used & natural comparative & superlative forms of In

Does it really matter? The word "insane" is an antiquated meaningless term.

Do you mean insane is no longer used in English speaking countries and it has become outdated? But I have heard this term in English movies.

Secondly, in your example you typed "He is insaner than she is."

Wouldn't it be correct had you said, "He is insaner than her"?

 

[Skrej]

Re: What are the most frequently used & natural comparative & superlative forms of In

'Insane' is still commonly used as a synonym for 'crazy', outside of any clinical definitions. It's a common way of expressing disbelief or disagreement.

Anybody who has spent time in public can attest that there most certainly is a wide range of degrees of craziness from the person merely mumbling to themselves to the coked-out meth-head strung out on bath salts eating people's faces. Somewhere in between lie the People of Wal-Mart

 

[Rover_KE]

Re: What are the most frequently used & natural comparative & superlative forms of In

Click here and you will see that insane is not as common as it used to be, and that insaner and insanest are rarely, if ever, used.

 

[Aamir Tariq]

Re: What are the most frequently used & natural comparative & superlative forms of In

Yes, who, in their right mind, would need to compare the degree of insanity unless one is doing a research in psychiatry?

Whether somebody would or wouldn't need to compare the degree of insanity under the normal circumstances unless he or she is doing a research in psychiatry is a totally different topic that can be discussed in much greater detail in general discussions forum. My question was rather related to English grammar. Now, when somebody is a passionate learner and he gets to learn different rules of grammar, certain questions may arise in his mind that can be related to the structure of certain words and sentences. I didn't find the comparative and superlative forms of the adjective "insane" and since I've been taught that "more" and "most" are added to form comparative and superlative forms of two-syllable adjectives, but at the same time knowing that in case of "sane", "saner" is the comparative and "sanest" is the superlative form, my hunger to learn and my passion to correct myself made me brought it up on this forum, because there is no better place to discuss these things other than forums like UsingEnglish.com. And I always love to seek guidance from language experts on this forum and it helps me a lot.

 

[Aamir Tariq]

Re: What are the most frequently used & natural comparative & superlative forms of In

'Insane' is still commonly used as a synonym for 'crazy', outside of any clinical definitions. It's a common way of expressing disbelief or disagreement.

Anybody who has spent time in public can attest that there most certainly is a wide range of degrees of craziness from the person merely mumbling to themselves to the coked-out meth-head strung out on bath salts eating people's faces. Somewhere in between lie the People of Wal-Mart

Exactly, that's what I was thinking too that it is used as a synonym for "crazy". Like an angry person in a movie can say "Are you insane?" to a person he is being angry at. And it is very common in Hollywood movies. And I was totally unaware of the clinical terms like "schizophrenia insaner" as well as "dissociative identity disorder", those terms made me a little confused but I looked them up in online dictionaries.