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lunatic
[ loo-nuh-tik ]
noun
- (no longer in technical use; now considered offensive) an insane person.
- a person whose actions and manner are marked by extreme eccentricity or recklessness.
- a person legally declared to be of unsound mind and who therefore is not held capable or responsible before the law: a former legal term.
adjective
- (no longer in technical use; now considered offensive) insane.
- characteristic or suggestive of lunacy; wildly or recklessly foolish.
- Older Use. designated for or used by the insane:
a lunatic asylum.
- gaily or lightheartedly mad, frivolous, eccentric, etc.:
She has a lunatic charm that is quite engaging.
lunatic
/ ˈluːnətɪk /
noun
- a person who is insane
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Derived Forms
- luˈnatically, adverb
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Other Words From
- lu·nati·cal·ly adverb
- half-luna·tic adjective
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Word History and Origins
Origin of lunatic1
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Word History and Origins
Origin of lunatic1
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Example Sentences
Fine, but there are lunatic sums of money being spent on art, surely?
It could also be true that she really was an insufferable lunatic afraid of catching Ebola from the plebeians.
“I saw a lunatic, simply stated,” the victim, a contractor from nearby Bristol, told police.
Everyone on the sidewalk looked at her like she was a lunatic, but she didn't care—she wanted that part.
There is only one word which I loathe more than I do lunatic and that word is crazy.
Unfortunately, as you say, I was present, and I tell you that our friend Barbiche behaved like a lunatic.
And I should say the same of a still-born baby that I had never seen alive, or of a lunatic whom I had not once seen sane.
The provision of a lodging for a lunatic was, moreover, an exception to the prohibition of the payment of rent for a pauper.
Moreover, the Central Authority took no steps to get such persons removed to lunatic asylums.
There, get along; if he were not so grossly immoral, he would be fit to shut up in a lunatic asylum.
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