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L0290200 (lo͞o′nə-tĭk)n.1. A person who is affected by lunacy; a mentally deranged person.2. A very foolish person.adj.1. Affected by lunacy; mentally deranged.2. Of or for people who are mentally deranged.3. Wildly or giddily foolish: a lunatic decision.

[Middle English lunatik, from Old French lunatique, from Latin lūnāticus, from lūna, moon (from the belief that madness was influenced by the phases of the moon); see leuk- in Indo-European roots.]

lunatic

(ˈluːnətɪk) adj1. (Psychiatry) an archaic word for insane2. foolish; eccentric; crazyn (Psychiatry) a person who is insane[C13 (adj) via Old French from Late Latin lūnāticus crazy, moonstruck, from Latin lūna moon] luˈnatically adv

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n. 1. an insane person. 2. a person whose actions and manner are marked by extreme eccentricity or recklessness. 3. Law. a person legally declared to be of unsound mind. adj. 4. insane; demented; crazy. 5. wildly or recklessly foolish. 6. designated for or used by the insane: a lunatic asylum. [1250–1300; Middle English lunatik < Old French lunatique < Late Latin lūnāticus moonstruck, derivative of Latin lūna moon]

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Noun	1.	lunatic - an insane personmadman, maniaccrazy, looney, loony, nutcase, weirdo - someone deranged and possibly dangerousbedlamite - an archaic term for a lunaticpyromaniac - a person with a mania for setting things on firemadwoman - a woman lunaticdiseased person, sick person, sufferer - a person suffering from an illness
	2.	lunatic - a reckless impetuous irresponsible persondaredevil, harum-scarum, madcap, swashbuckler, hotheadadventurer, venturer - a person who enjoys taking riskstearaway - a reckless and impetuous person
Adj.	1.	lunatic - insane and believed to be affected by the phases of the moonmoonstruckcolloquialism - a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speechinsane - afflicted with or characteristic of mental derangement; "was declared insane"; "insane laughter"

lunatic

noun1. madman, maniac, psychopath, nut (slang), loony (slang), nutter (Brit. slang), basket case (slang), nutcase (slang), headcase (informal), headbanger (informal) Her son thinks she's a raving lunatic.adjective1. mad, crazy, insane, irrational, nuts (slang), barking (slang), daft, demented, barmy (slang), deranged, bonkers (slang, chiefly Brit.), unhinged, loopy (informal), crackpot (informal), out to lunch (informal), barking mad (slang), maniacal, gonzo (slang), up the pole (informal), crackbrained, wacko or whacko (informal) the operation of the market taken to lunatic extremes

lunatic

adjective1. Afflicted with or exhibiting irrationality and mental unsoundness:brainsick, crazy, daft, demented, disordered, distraught, dotty, insane, mad, maniac, maniacal, mentally ill, moonstruck, off, touched, unbalanced, unsound, wrong.Informal: bonkers, cracked, daffy, gaga, loony.Slang: bananas, batty, buggy, cuckoo, fruity, loco, nuts, nutty, screwy, wacky.Chiefly British: crackers.Law: non compos mentis.Idioms: around the bend, crazy as a loon, mad as a hatter, not all there, nutty as a fruitcake, off one's head, off one's rocker, of unsound mind, out of one's mind, sick in the head, stark raving mad.2. So senseless as to be laughable:absurd, foolish, harebrained, idiotic, imbecilic, insane, mad, moronic, nonsensical, preposterous, silly, softheaded, tomfool, unearthly, zany.Informal: cockeyed, crazy, loony, loopy.Slang: balmy, dippy, dopey, jerky, sappy, wacky.nounA person regarded as strange, eccentric, or crazy:crackpot, crazy, eccentric.Informal: crank, loon, loony.Slang: cuckoo, ding-a-ling, dingbat, kook, nut, screwball, weirdie, weirdo.

Translations

疯子精神病患者精神错乱的

lunacy

(ˈluːnəsi) noun insanity; madness. 疯狂，精神病 ˈlunatic (-tik) adjective, noun (abbreviation (usually unkind) loony (ˈluːni) – plural ˈloonies) (a person who is) insane or crazy. Only a lunatic would do such a thing! 精神错乱的，精神病患者

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the lunatics have taken over the asylum

The people least capable of running a group or organization are now in charge. Said especially when the result is total chaos or calamity. With the primary schools giving their young students complete control over the curriculum, it seems as though the lunatics have taken over the asylum. After the recent election, a new wave of political extremists have taken power in Congress. It looks like the lunatics have taken over the asylum.See also: asylum, have, lunatic, over, taken

the lunatics are running the asylum

The people least capable of running a group or organization are now in charge. Said especially when the result is total chaos or calamity. With the primary schools giving their young students complete control over the curriculum, it seems as though the lunatics are running the asylum. After the recent election, a new wave of political extremists have taken power in Congress. It looks like the lunatics are now running the asylum.See also: asylum, lunatic, running

lunatic fringe

The most extreme members or portion of a larger group of people. The group has widely been dismissed as the lunatic fringe of the religion, taking its most fundamentalist aspects and warping them into a cult-like ideology based on prejudice and hate. They're part of some lunatic fringe who believe that eating anything that dwells or grows above ground pollutes the body with toxins.See also: fringe, lunatic

lunatic fringe

the more extreme members of a group. Most of the members of that religious sect are quite reasonable, but Lisa belongs to the lunatic fringe. Many people try to avoid eating a lot of fat, but Mary is part of the lunatic fringe and will eat anything.See also: fringe, lunatic

the ˌlunatic ˈfringe

(disapproving) members of an organization or group who are more extreme than the others; extreme groups: It’s the lunatic fringe of the Animal Liberation Front which smashes the windows of butchers’ shops, not ordinary members like us.The word lunatic means crazy. It comes from the Latin word luna, meaning ‘moon’, because people believed that the changes in the moon caused temporary madness.See also: fringe, lunatic

lunatic fringe, the

A minority group who have what others consider very extreme beliefs. The term was first used (and perhaps coined) by Theodore Roosevelt in History as Literature (1913): “There is apt to be a lunatic fringe among the votaries of any forward movement.” At first used mainly for political extremists, the expression was later extended to other venues, as by Diana Ramsay in Deadly Discretion (1973): “Antique shops were magnets for the lunatic fringe.”See also: lunatic

lunatics have taken over the asylum, the

The individuals who should be overseen or regulated are running the show. The term appears to have been first used in 1919, when the four most powerful figures in the American film industry—Charlie Chaplin, Douglas Fairbanks, Mary Pickford, and D.W. Griffith—decided to found their own distribution company, called United Artists. In response the producer Richard Rowland remarked, “The lunatics have taken over the asylum.” The remark got wide publicity and entered the language, subsequently applied to many other situations of a comparable nature and becoming a cliché. In 1981 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer absorbed United Artists but retained the name, but in 2004 Sony Corporation agreed to buy Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, and the future of United Artists was in doubt. See also: have, lunatic, over, taken

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noun madman

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adj mad

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adj afflicted with or exhibiting irrationality and mental unsoundness

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adj so senseless as to be laughable

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noun a person regarded as strange, eccentric, or crazy

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noun an insane person

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noun a reckless impetuous irresponsible person

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adj insane and believed to be affected by the phases of the moon

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