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Another word for lunatic

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Adjective

  1. Afflicted with or exhibiting irrationality and mental unsoundness

    Idioms:
    See also:

    sane

  2. So senseless as to be laughable

    See also:

    knowledge

    ability

Noun

  1. A person regarded as strange, eccentric, or crazy

      1. A strange or eccentric person.
      1. A strange person, event, or thing.
      1. A pitched ball that curves in the direction opposite to that of a normal curve ball.
      2. An eccentric, impulsively whimsical, or irrational person.
      3. Impulsively whimsical; eccentric:
      1. An indehiscent fruit having a single seed enclosed in a hard shell, such as an acorn or hazelnut.
      2. The usually edible seed of such a fruit.
      3. Any of various other usually edible seeds enclosed in a hard covering such as a seed coat or the stone of a drupe, as in a pine nut, peanut, almond, or walnut.
      1. A person regarded as strange, eccentric, or crazy.
      1. An empty-headed or silly person.
      2. An object, such as a brick or stone, used as a missile.
      3. An unspecified gadget or other small article, especially one whose name is unknown or forgotten.
      1. A person who is scatterbrained or eccentric.
      1. A grayish bird (Cuculus canorus) of Eurasia and Africa that has a characteristic two-note call and lays its eggs in the nests of birds of other species.
      2. Any of various other birds of the family Cuculidae.
      3. The call or cry of one of these birds.
      1. Extremely foolish or silly.
      2. Mentally deranged; crazy.
      3. A foolish or crazy person.
      1. Any of several fish-eating diving birds of the genus Gavia of northern regions, having a short tail, webbed feet, and a laughlike cry.
      1. A device for transmitting rotary motion, consisting of a handle or arm attached at right angles to a shaft.
      2. A clever turn of speech; a verbal conceit:
      3. A peculiar or eccentric idea or action.
      1. Departing from a recognized, conventional, or established norm or pattern.
      2. Deviating from a circular form or path, as in an elliptical orbit.
      3. Not having the same center:
      1. Mentally deranged.
      2. Possessed by enthusiasm or excitement:
      3. Immoderately fond; infatuated:
      1. An eccentric person, especially one with bizarre ideas.
      2. Foolish; harebrained:
    See also:

    wise

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Another word for lunatic

Modifier

  1. Insane

    See also:

    insane

  2. Foolish

    See also:

    stupid

Noun
  1. See also:

    neurotic

    madman

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Sentence Examples

  • He's a raving lunatic out there right now.

  • The Western Lunatic Asylum at Hopkinsville was founded in 1848.

  • She didn't seem like the lunatic kind.

  • The town possesses few buildings of any note, but government house, the law-courts, the gaol, the lunatic asylum and the HongKong and Shanghai Bank are exceptions, as also is the cathedral of St Andrew.

  • The county lunatic asylum is situated here.

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