adj
Meaning 1
Crazed, mad, insane, demented.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
lunatic
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adj
Meaning 2
Relating to the Moon; lunar.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: literary, rare
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adj
Meaning 3
Influenced or affected by the Moon.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: literary, rare
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 4
An insane person.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: moonling, basket case, basket weaver, crack, crackpot, crazy, crazyhead, dingbat, eccentric, fruit and nut case, fruit cake, fruit loop, fruitloop, head case, kook, loony, loony tune, lunatic, madcap, madhead, mental case, nut, nut ball, nutbar, nutburger, nutcase, nutjob, nutter, psycho, psychoceramic, schizo, screwball, space cadet, space pilot, unconventional, wackadoo, wackadoodle, wacko, whackjob, whacko, weirdo, wingnut, space case
Antonyms: none provided
adjective satellite
Meaning 5
insane and believed to be affected by the phases of the moon
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: moonstruck
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 6
a reckless impetuous irresponsible person
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: daredevil, madcap, hothead, swashbuckler, harum-scarum
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: adventurer, venturer
Narrower terms: tearaway
noun
Meaning 7
an insane person
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: madman, maniac
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: sick person, diseased person, sufferer
Narrower terms: crazy, loony, looney, nutcase, weirdo, bedlamite, pyromaniac, madwoman
History
Etymology
From Middle English lunatik, from Old French lunatique, from Late Latin lunaticus (“moonstruck”), derived from Latin luna (“moon”), the connection stemming from the belief that changes of the moon caused intermittent insanity.
Across languages
Translations
114 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bulgarian: луд (lud) — crazed
- Bulgarian: побъркан (pobǎrkan) — crazed
- Catalan: llunàtic — crazed
- Czech: šílený — crazed
- Czech: bláznivý — crazed
- Esperanto: lunatika — crazed
- Finnish: hullu — crazed
- French: lunatique — crazed
- Hebrew: סַהֲרוּרִי (saharurí) — crazed
- Irish: gealtach — crazed
- Irish: gan chiall — crazed
- Latin: lunaticus — crazed
- Norman: leunatique — crazed
- Portuguese: lunático — crazed
- Russian: сумасше́дший (sumasšédšij) — crazed
- Russian: душевнобольно́й (duševnobolʹnój) — crazed
- Russian: поме́шанный (poméšannyj) — crazed
- Russian: чо́кнутый (čóknutyj) — crazed
- Slovak: šialený — crazed
- Slovak: bláznivý — crazed
- Spanish: lunático — crazed
- Ottoman Turkish: دلی (deli) — crazed
- Ottoman Turkish: مجنون (mecnun) — crazed
- Welsh: lloerig — crazed
- Armenian: խենթ (xentʻ) — insane person
- Bashkir: иҫәр (iśər) — insane person
- Bashkir: диуана (diwana) — insane person
- Bashkir: алйот (alyot) — insane person
- Bashkir: тиле (tile) — insane person
- Bashkir: йүләр (yülər) — insane person
- Bashkir: тинтәк (tintək) — insane person
- Bashkir: һантый (hantıy) — insane person
- Bulgarian: луд (lud) — insane person
- Bulgarian: умопобъ́ркан (umopobǎ́rkan) — insane person
- Cherokee: ᎤᎸᏅᏘᏍᎩ (ulvnvtisgi) — insane person
- Chinese Mandarin: 瘋子 /疯子 (fēngzi) — insane person
- Chinese Mandarin: 狂人 (kuángrén) — insane person
- Czech: šílenec — insane person
- Czech: blázen — insane person
- Dutch: gek — insane person
- Dutch: gekkin — insane person
- Dutch: zot — insane person
- Dutch: zottin — insane person
- Esperanto: lunatiko — insane person
- Finnish: hullu — insane person
- Finnish: kuuhullu — insane person
- Finnish: mielipuoli — insane person
- French: lunatique — insane person
- French: dément — insane person
- French: démente — insane person
- French: aliéné — insane person
- French: aliénée — insane person
- French: déséquilibré — insane person
- German: Irre — insane person
- Hiligaynon: buangit — insane person
- Hiligaynon: rendido ang ulo — insane person
- Hungarian: holdkóros — insane person
- Hungarian: havas — insane person
- Icelandic: brjálæðingur — insane person
- Icelandic: geðsjúklingur — insane person
- Indonesian: orang gila — insane person
- Interlingua: folle — insane person
- Irish: gealt — insane person
- Italian: demente — insane person
- Japanese: 狂人 (kyōjin) — insane person
- Japanese: 気違い (kichigai) — insane person
- Kikuyu: mũgũrũki — insane person
- Korean: 광인 (gwang'in) — insane person
- Korean: 미치광이 (michigwang'i) — insane person
- Macedonian: лудак (ludak) — insane person
- Malay: orang gila — insane person
- Māori: porowairangi — insane person
- Marathi: वेडा (veḍā) — insane person
- Marathi: वेडी (veḍī) — insane person
- Marathi: वेडे (veḍe) — insane person
- Norman: leunatique — insane person
- Occitan: lunatic — insane person
- Occitan: baug — insane person
- Occitan: fòl — insane person
- Iranian Persian: دیوانِه (divâne) — insane person
- Polish: wariat — insane person
- Polish: szaleniec — insane person
- Portuguese: lunático — insane person
- Portuguese: lunática — insane person
- Romanian: nebun — insane person
- Romanian: nebună — insane person
- Russian: псих (psix) — insane person
- Russian: душевнобольно́й (duševnobolʹnój) — insane person
- Russian: сумасше́дший (sumasšédšij) — insane person
- Russian: поме́шанный (poméšannyj) — insane person
- Russian: чо́кнутый (čóknutyj) — insane person
- Serbo-Croatian: лу̀да̄к — insane person
- Serbo-Croatian: бѐзӯмнӣк — insane person
- Serbo-Croatian: lùdāk — insane person
- Serbo-Croatian: bèzūmnīk — insane person
- Slovak: šialenec — insane person
- Slovak: blázon — insane person
- Slovene: norec — insane person
- Slovene: blaznež — insane person
- Spanish: insano — insane person
- Spanish: orate — insane person
- Swedish: galning — insane person
- Swedish: dåre — insane person
- Swedish: knäppgök — insane person
- Tagalog: baliw — insane person
- Tagalog: sira-ulo — insane person
- Turkish: deli — insane person
- Ottoman Turkish: دلی (deli) — insane person
- Ottoman Turkish: مجنون (mecnūn) — insane person
- Unami: kèkpëchehëlat — insane person
- Urdu: دِیوانَہ (dīvāna) — insane person
- Urdu: پاگَل (pāgal) — insane person
- Urdu: پَگْلا (paglā) — insane person
- Welsh: lloerig — insane person
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