lunatic
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lunatic
- /ˈluːnətɪk/
- /luːˈnætɪk/
Where it comes from
From Middle English lunatik, from Old French lunatique, from Late Latin lunaticus (“moonstruck”), derived from Latin luna (“moon”), the connection stemming from the belief that changes of the moon caused intermittent insanity.
noun lunatics · lunatick
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An insane person.
While there are other races (or individuals—heaven forgive me, I am no ethnologist) who think you a criminal or a lunatic unless you carefully plod along from step to step like a hippopotamus out of water.
Similar: moonling, basket case, basket weaver, crack, crackpot, crazy, crazyhead, dingbat, eccentric, fruit and nut case, fruit cake, fruit loop
adjective more lunatic · most lunatic · lunatick
- Crazed, mad, insane, demented.
- Relating to the Moon; lunar. As the narrator turns his attention to the moon itself and its Lunatic inhabitants, Heinsius seems to draw on the True History, but is still within the confines of the Icaromenippus.
- Influenced or affected by the Moon. This I remember: she was false as the lunatic sea.
Thesaurus
Closest in meaning: insane, madman, moonstruck, maniac, hothead, harum-scarum, madcap, daredevil, swashbuckler, demented, mad, crazy, craze, screwy, loony, psycho
Translations
Every language
noun insane person
| Español | insano, orate |
|---|---|
| 한국어 | 광인 gwang'in, 미치광이 michigwang'i |
| 日本語 | 狂人 kyōjin, 気違い kichigai |
| 中文 | 瘋子 /疯子 fēngzi, 狂人 kuángrén |
| Português | lunático, lunática |
| Français | lunatique, dément, démente, aliéné, aliénée, déséquilibré |
| Deutsch | Irre |
| Italiano | demente |
| Română | nebun, nebună |
| Русский | псих psix, душевнобольно́й duševnobolʹnój, сумасше́дший sumasšédšij, поме́шанный poméšannyj, чо́кнутый čóknutyj |
adj crazed
| Español | lunático |
|---|---|
| Português | lunático |
| Français | lunatique |
| Русский | сумасше́дший sumasšédšij, душевнобольно́й duševnobolʹnój, поме́шанный poméšannyj, чо́кнутый čóknutyj |
| עברית | סַהֲרוּרִי saharurí |
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title = {lunatic},
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year = {2026},
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