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What (who) is lunatic - definition
ANTIQUATED ADJECTIVE EPITHET OF ONE GIVEN TO LUNACY
Loony; Lunatics; Loonyism
Lunatic
·adj Affected by lunacy; insane; mad.
II. Lunatic ·adj Of or pertaining to, or suitable for, an insane person; evincing lunacy; as, lunatic gibberish; a lunatic asylum.
III. Lunatic ·noun A person affected by lunacy; an insane person, ·esp. one who has lucid intervals; a madman; a person of unsound mind.
lunatic
(lunatics)
1.
If you describe someone as a lunatic, you think they behave in a dangerous, stupid, or annoying way. (INFORMAL)
Her son thinks she's an absolute raving lunatic.
N-COUNT [disapproval]
2.
If you describe someone's behaviour or ideas as lunatic, you think they are very foolish and possibly dangerous.
...the operation of the market taken to lunatic extremes.
...a country spurned until now by all except the more lunatic of journalists and adventurers.
= mad, insane
ADJ [disapproval]
3.
If you describe a place or situation as lunatic, you mean that it is confused and seems out of control.
He pleads for sanity in a lunatic world.
ADJ: ADJ n
4.
People who were mentally ill used to be called lunatics. (OLD-FASHIONED)
N-COUNT
lunatic
¦ noun a person who is mentally ill (not in technical use).
?an extremely foolish person.
Origin
ME: from OFr. lunatique, from late L. lunaticus, from L. luna 'moon' (from the belief that changes of the moon caused intermittent insanity).
Wikipedia
Lunatic
Lunatic is a term referring to a person who is seen as mentally ill, dangerous, foolish, or crazy—conditions once attributed to "lunacy". The word derives from lunaticus meaning "of the moon" or "moonstruck".
Examples of use of lunatic
1. Their lunatic idealism is destroying the country.
2. Start with the lunatic story of rice stockpiles in Japan.
3. This evening, I will perform a feat of lunatic daring.
4. There is an issue about the lunatic fringe of preachers.
5. "You cannot possibly work with that lunatic," he added.