Adjective haywire has 2 senses
- balmy, barmy, bats, batty, bonkers, buggy, cracked, crackers, daft, dotty, fruity, haywire, kooky, kookie, loco, loony, loopy, nuts, nutty, round the bend, around the bend, wacky, whacky - informal or slang terms for mentally irregular; "it used to drive my husband balmy"
Antonym: sane (indirect, via insane)
- amiss, awry, haywire, wrong - not functioning properly; "something is amiss"; "has gone completely haywire"; "something is wrong with the engine"
Antonym: functioning (indirect, via malfunctioning)
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Noun haywire has 1 sense
- haywire - wire for tying up bales of hay
--1 is a kind of wire
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