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In some senses, lunatic is marked as literary, rare. Watch for register when choosing this word.
lunatic
/ˈluːnətɪk/
adj 3noun 1
Collocations
4(noun.)
ADJ
complete, raving | dangerous | criminal
LUNATIC + NOUN
asylum
Definitions
noun
1
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.
You may be right I may be crazy Oh, but it just may be a lunatic you're looking for
adj
1
Crazed, mad, insane, demented.
2
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.
That or I might bounce off something I hit and head back out into space, become the light in the eye of some lunatic observer, looking up at the big blue ball and seeing me bang something in their retina.
3
Influenced or affected by the Moon.
This I remember: she was false as the lunatic sea.
Thesaurus
Synonyms
noun — a reckless impetuous irresponsible person
adjective — insane and believed to be affected by the phases of the moon
Antonyms
Idioms & Phrases
Example Bank
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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 w
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You may be right I may be crazy Oh, but it just may be a lunatic you're looking for
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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.
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That or I might bounce off something I hit and head back out into space, become the light in the eye of some lunatic observer, looking up at the big blue ball and seeing me bang something in their ret
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This I remember: she was false as the lunatic sea.
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It has been said that a man at ten is an animal, at twenty a lunatic, at thirty a failure, at forty a fraud, and at fifty a criminal.
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