It has been said that a man at ten is an animal, at twenty a lunatic, at thirty a failure, at forty a fraud, and at fifty a criminal.
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Lunatic
//ˈluːnətɪk//
Synonyms for "lunatic" (209 found)
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Strong matches (63)
Related words (104)
Noun(27 words)
maniacalmanicmazedmentalmentally deficientmeshuggahmeshuggenahmilksopmindlessmoon struckmoon-struckmooncalfmoonlingmoonstruckneuropathneuroticnon composnon compos mentisnoncomposnot all there
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not rightnutoddof unsound mindoffparanoidperfect foolphreneticpottypreposterouspsychopsychoneuroticpsychoticqueerraverraving lunaticreasonlessschmuckscrewballscrewysenselesssicksoftheadsopstark-madstark-staring madstrangestupid asstetchedtomfooltouchedunbalancedunhingedunsaneunsettledunsoundwackywanderingweirdowitlesswrongzany
Adjective(14 words)
Adjective(1 words)
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5 entriesSynonyms
10 entriesRelated terms
2 entriesat location
1 entriescapable of
2 entriesderived
9 entriesderived from
1 entriesis a
3 entriesrelated to
4 entriessimilar
1 entriesTranslations
101 translations across 41 languages.
Armenian
1 entries- խենթ noun (insane person)
Bashkir
4 entries- алйот noun (insane person)
- диуана noun (insane person)
- иҫәр noun (insane person)
- йүләр noun (insane person)
Bulgarian
4 entries- луд adj (crazed)
- побъркан adj (crazed)
- луд noun (insane person)
- умопобъркан noun (insane person)
Catalan
1 entries- llunàtic adj (crazed)
Cherokee
1 entries- ᎤᎸᏅᏘᏍᎩ noun (insane person)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 狂人 noun (insane person)
- 瘋子 /疯子 noun (insane person)
Czech
4 entries- bláznivý adj (crazed)
- šílený adj (crazed)
- blázen noun (insane person)
- šílenec noun (insane person)
Dutch
4 entries- gek noun (insane person)
- gekkin noun (insane person)
- zot noun (insane person)
- zottin noun (insane person)
Esperanto
2 entries- lunatika adj (crazed)
- lunatiko noun (insane person)
Finnish
4 entries- hullu adj (crazed)
- hullu noun (insane person)
- kuuhullu noun (insane person)
- mielipuoli noun (insane person)
French
4 entries- lunatique adj (crazed)
- aliéné noun (insane person)
- aliénée noun (insane person)
- dément noun (insane person)
German
1 entries- Irre noun (insane person)
Hebrew
1 entries- סַהֲרוּרִי adj (crazed)
Hiligaynon
2 entries- buangit noun (insane person)
- rendido ang ulo noun (insane person)
Hungarian
2 entries- havas noun (insane person)
- holdkóros noun (insane person)
Icelandic
2 entries- brjálæðingur noun (insane person)
- geðsjúklingur noun (insane person)
Interlingua
1 entries- folle noun (insane person)
Irish
3 entries- gan chiall adj (crazed)
- gealtach adj (crazed)
- gealt noun (insane person)
Italian
1 entries- demente noun (insane person)
Japanese
1 entries- 気違い noun (insane person)
Kikuyu
1 entries- mũgũrũki noun (insane person)
Korean
1 entries- 미치광이 noun (insane person)
Latin
1 entries- lunaticus adj (crazed)
Macedonian
1 entries- лудак noun (insane person)
Marathi
3 entries- वेडा noun (insane person)
- वेडी noun (insane person)
- वेडे noun (insane person)
Māori
1 entries- porowairangi noun (insane person)
Norman
2 entries- leunatique adj (crazed)
- leunatique noun (insane person)
Occitan
3 entries- baug noun (insane person)
- fòl noun (insane person)
- lunatic noun (insane person)
Ottoman Turkish
4 entries- دلی adj (crazed)
- مجنون adj (crazed)
- دلی noun (insane person)
- مجنون noun (insane person)
Polish
2 entries- szaleniec noun (insane person)
- wariat noun (insane person)
Portuguese
3 entries- lunático adj (crazed)
- lunática noun (insane person)
- lunático noun (insane person)
Romanian
2 entries- nebun noun (insane person)
- nebună noun (insane person)
Russian
4 entries- душевнобольно́й adj (crazed)
- поме́шанный adj (crazed)
- сумасше́дший adj (crazed)
- чо́кнутый adj (crazed)
Serbo-Croatian
1 entries- bezumnik noun (insane person)
Slovak
4 entries- bláznivý adj (crazed)
- šialený adj (crazed)
- blázon noun (insane person)
- šialenec noun (insane person)
Spanish
3 entries- lunático adj (crazed)
- insano noun (insane person)
- orate noun (insane person)
Swedish
3 entries- dåre noun (insane person)
- galning noun (insane person)
- knäppgök noun (insane person)
Tagalog
2 entries- baliw noun (insane person)
- sira-ulo noun (insane person)
Turkish
1 entries- deli noun (insane person)
Unami
1 entries- kèkpëchehëlat noun (insane person)
Welsh
2 entries- lloerig adj (crazed)
- lloerig noun (insane person)
Sample sentences
15 total sentences available.
With such a vivid imagination he'll become either a world-famous novelist or a lunatic.
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He acted like a lunatic.
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Last century they would have just thrown someone like Tom into a lunatic asylum.
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