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Another word for lunatic

lunatic Synonyms

lunatic

modif.

Insane
demented, deranged, psychotic; see insane 1.
Foolish
irrational, idiotic, daft; see stupid 1.

lunatic Synonyms

lunatic

n.

maniac, demoniac, insane person; see madman, neurotic.

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Another word for lunatic

adjective

Afflicted with or exhibiting irrationality and mental unsoundness:
brainsick, crazy, daft, demented, disordered, distraught, dotty, insane, mad, maniac, maniacal, mentally ill, moonstruck, off, touched, unbalanced, unsound, wrong. (Informal) bonkers, cracked, daffy, gaga, loony. (Slang) bananas, batty, buggy, cuckoo, fruity, loco, nuts, nutty, screwy, wacky. (Chiefly British) crackers. (Law) non compos mentis. Idioms: around the bend, crazy as a loon, mad as a hatter, not all there, nutty as a fruitcake, off (or out of) one's head, off one's rocker, of unsound mind, out of one's mind, sick in the head, stark raving mad. See sane
So senseless as to be laughable:
absurd, foolish, harebrained, idiotic, imbecilic, insane, mad, moronic, nonsensical, preposterous, silly, softheaded, tomfool, unearthly, zany. (Informal) cockeyed, crazy, loony, loopy. (Slang) balmy², dippy, dopey, jerky, sappy, wacky. See ability, knowledge

noun

A person regarded as strange, eccentric, or crazy:

crackpot, crazy, eccentric. (Informal) crank, loon, loony. (Slang) cuckoo, ding-a-ling, dingbat, kook, nut, screwball, weirdie, weirdo. See wise

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He's a raving lunatic out there right now.
The Western Lunatic Asylum at Hopkinsville was founded in 1848.
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.
She didn't seem like the lunatic kind.

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