Meaning

An insane person..

Definitions by Sense

1. An insane person.
2. Crazed, mad, insane, demented.
3. (literary, rare) Relating to the Moon; lunar.
4. (literary, rare) Influenced or affected by the Moon.

Example Sentences

While there are other races (or individuals—heaven forgive me, I am no ethnologist) who think you a criminal or a lunatic unless you carefully plod along from step to step like a hippopotamus out of water.

You may be right I may be crazy Oh, but it just may be a lunatic you're looking for

As the narrator turns his attention to the moon itself and its Lunatic inhabitants, Heinsius seems to draw on the True History, but is still within the confines of the Icaromenippus.

That or I might bounce off something I hit and head back out into space, become the light in the eye of some lunatic observer, looking up at the big blue ball and seeing me bang something in their retina.

This I remember: she was false as the lunatic sea.

Word Forms

• lunatics
• lunatick
• more lunatic
• most lunatic

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When Should You Use Lunatic?

Use lunatic when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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