Crossword clues for lunatic
lunatic
- Crackpot
- Kook
- Nut
- A reckless impetuous irresponsible person
- An insane person
- Moon-dog problem?
- Asylum resident
- Certain fringe
- Moonstruck in a cult after processing
- Madman let loose in a cult
- Extremely foolish for London's earliest university to have Brown back in charge
- Nut one Italian jerk on head for leering
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Lunatic \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.
Lunatic \Lu"na*tic\, a. [F. lunatique, L. lunaticus, fr. luna the moon. See Lunar.]
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Affected by lunacy; insane; mad; crazy; demented.
Lord, have mercy on my son; for he is lunatic.
--Wyclif (Matt. xvii. 15). Of or pertaining to, or suitable for, an insane person; evincing lunacy; as, lunatic gibberish; a lunatic asylum.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 13c., "affected with periodic insanity, dependent on the changes of the moon," from Old French lunatique, lunage "insane," or directly from Late Latin lunaticus "moon-struck," from Latin luna "moon" (see Luna). Compare Old English monseoc "lunatic," literally "moon-sick;" Middle High German lune "humor, temper, mood, whim, fancy" (German Laune), from Latin luna. Compare also New Testament Greek seleniazomai "be epileptic," from selene "moon." Lunatic fringe (1913) apparently was coined by U.S. politician Theodore Roosevelt.\n\nThen, among the wise and high-minded people who in self-respecting and genuine fashion strive earnestly for peace, there are foolish fanatics always to be found in such a movement and always discrediting it -- the men who form the lunatic fringe in all reform movements. [Theodore Roosevelt, autobiography, 1913].\n\nEarlier it was a term for a type of hairstyle worn over the forehead (1877). Lunatic soup (1933) was Australian slang for "alcoholic drink."
"lunatic person," late 14c., from lunatic (adj.).
Wiktionary
a. crazed, mad, insane, demented n. An insane person.
WordNet
adj. insane and believed to be affected by the phases of the moon [syn: moonstruck]
a reckless impetuous irresponsible person [syn: daredevil, madcap, hothead, swashbuckler, harum-scarum]
Wikipedia
Lunatic is an informal term referring to a person who is considered mentally ill, dangerous, foolish or unpredictable, conditions once attributed to lunacy. The term may be considered insulting in serious contexts in modern times, but is now more likely to be used in friendly jest. The word derives from lunaticus meaning "of the moon" or "moonstruck". The term was once commonly used in law.
Lunatic is the fifth book in the Lost Books series, written by Ted Dekker, and the first book in the series written with Kaci Hill. It is set at the beginning of White, from Dekker's Circle Trilogy. It, along with the sixth book, Elyon, was released on June 2, 2009.
Lunatic is the fifth album by French rapper Booba and released on November 22, 2010, on Tallac Records. It's named after his former hip hop duo Lunatic, with Ali. Lunatic sold 37,000 copies in its first week. By December 2010, Lunatic' had sold 110,000 copies.
Lunatic was a French hip hop duo from Boulogne-Billancourt. The lineup consisted of Booba ( Boulogne-Billancourt) and Ali ( Issy-les-Moulineaux), coming from the department of Hauts-de-Seine in the west suburb of Paris.
After Lunatic split up in 2003, both members went on to solo careers. Their release "Le Crime Paie" was produced by DJ Mars.
Lunatic is the second studio album by South African-American rock band Kongos. It was released independently by Tokoloshe on December 28, 2012. After signing with Epic Records, they re-released the album on February 25, 2014.
" Lunatic" is a commonly used term for a person who is mentally ill, dangerous, foolish, unpredictable; a condition once called lunacy.
Lunatic may also refer to:
- Lunatic (Booba album), 2010 album by French rapper Booba
- Lunatic (Kongos album), 2012/14 album by South African rock band Kongos
- Lunatic (group), a French hip-hop duo, consisted of Ali and Booba
- Lunatic (novel), a 2009 novel by Ted Dekker
- Lunatic Lake, a lake in Alaska, U.S.
- The Cornell Lunatic, a college humor magazine at Cornell University
- "Lunatic", a single by Gazebo
- "Lunatic", a song by Dolores O'Riordan
- "Lunatic", a song by Static-X from Cult of Static
Usage examples of "lunatic".
My mother is an agoraphobic lunatic who walks in her sleep and thinks the world revolves around her.
If Arabin had not been acquainted with the intermittent character of the disease, he would have been at a loss to believe that the person with whom he was in conversation was a fit person to inhabit a lunatic asylum.
At length Arabin made one effort more potent than the others, for the window flew up just as the united strength of the lunatic and his servant burst the door.
As Arabin had not returned, and as the lunatic seemed in a convalescent state, the officer prevailed upon him to start for town.
Just such babblement as that you can read in very learned books, and stuff like that has actually been taught in colleges, and nobody was sent to the lunatic asylum!
This set off a spark of laughter from those in the audience who agreed the Baptist was probably a lunatic, thinking himself the reincarnation of some ancient prophet.
Even as he spoke, Ainslie was reminded of the few dissidents labeled by prosecutors as a lunatic fringe who argued that Elroy Doil, because of his adamant denials, had not been proven guilty.
Trench heard of a man slipping out from Wadi Halfa, crossing the Nile and wandering with the assumed manner of a lunatic southwards, starving and waterless, until one day he was snapped up by a Mahdist caravan and dragged to Dongola as a spy.
She came into the room with an easy gracefulness which would at once command the respect of any lunatic, for easiness is one of the qualities mad people most respect.
Chasing an errant swarm of bees is nothing to following a naked lunatic, when the fit of escaping is upon him!
East Shoppe in White Plains, except for bill collectors, meter readers, and delivery men sent by the lunatic Iranian, Faud Banidegh, who seemed intent on burying Solly Martin under mountains of Islamic crescents, half in cheap golden metal and the other half in mother of pearl.
My name is Monk Freck, and I used to be a keeper in the state lunatic asylum where Isaac Apgar was confined.
She added that a will had been found which savoured of a lunatic asylum, for she had left all her wealth to the son or daughter that should be born of her, declaring that she was with child.
Since I myself have been an inmate of a lunatic asylum, I cannot but notice that the sophistic tendencies of some of its inmates lean towards the errors of non causa and ignoratio elenche.
TV news had begun to lose their initial jokey tone, but I was still inclined to laugh off the lunatic fringe.