Meaning of LUNATIC
Pronunciation: | | 'loonutik
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- [n] a reckless impetuous irresponsible person
- [n] an insane person
- [adj] (informal) some insane and believed to be affected by the phases of the moon
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| Synonyms: | | daredevil, harum-scarum, hothead, insane, madcap, madman, maniac, moonstruck, swashbuckler |
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| See Also: | | adventurer, bedlamite, crazy, diseased person, looney, loony, madwoman, pyromaniac, sick person, sufferer, tearaway, venturer, weirdo | |
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| Definition: | | Lunatic Description not available. more details ... |
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Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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\Lu"na*tic\, a. [F. lunatique, L. lunaticus, fr. luna
the moon. See {Lunar}.]
1. Affected by lunacy; insane; mad.
Lord, have mercy on my son; for he is lunatic.
--Wyclif
(Matt. xvii.
15).
2. Of or pertaining to, or suitable for, an insane person;
evincing lunacy; as, lunatic gibberish; a lunatic asylum.
\Lu"na*tic\, n.
A person affected by lunacy; an insane person, esp. one who
has lucid intervals; a madman; a person of unsound mind.
The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, Are of
imagination all compact. --Shak.
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Dream Dictionary |
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| Definition: | | Seeing a lunatic in your dream, represents an acknowledged aspect of yourself. You may feel that your opinions and suggestions don't matter or are being ignored. You feel like an outsider. Alternatively, you may feel that you have lost a person, situation, or relationship which you frequently depended on. |
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Easton Bible Dictionary |
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| Definition: | | probably the same as epileptic, the symptoms of which disease were supposed to be more aggravated as the moon increased. In Matt. 4:24 "lunatics" are distinguished from demoniacs. In 17:15 the name "lunatic" is applied to one who is declared to have been possessed. (See DAEMONIAC.) |
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Thesaurus Terms |
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| Related Terms: | | abnormal, absurd, aliene, ass, balmy, batty, bedlamite, bereft of reason, borderline case, born fool, brainsick, buffoon, clown, crackbrain, crackbrained, cracked, crackpot, crank, crazed, crazy, cuckoo, daft, deluded, dement, demented, demoniac, deprived of reason, deranged, ding-a-ling, disoriented, distraught, doodle, egregious ass, energumen, fanatic, fantastic, figure of fun, flake, flighty, fool, fou, hallucinated, harebrain, idiot, ignoramus, insane, irrational, jackass, kook, loco, loon, loony, mad, maddened, madman, maniac, manic, mazed, mental, mentally deficient, meshuggah, meshuggenah, milksop, mooncalf, moon-struck, neuropath, neurotic, non compos, non compos mentis, noncompos, not all there, not right, nut, odd, of unsound mind, off, paranoid, perfect fool, phrenetic, potty, preposterous, psycho, psychoneurotic, queer, raver, raving lunatic, reasonless, schmuck, screwball, senseless, sick, softhead, sop, stark-mad, stark-staring mad, strange, stupid ass, tetched, tomfool, touched, unbalanced, unhinged, unsane, unsettled, unsound, wacky, wandering, weirdo, witless, zany |
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