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" (152 found)
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dementeddemoniacdeprived of reasonderangedding-a-lingdisordereddisorienteddistraughtdoodleegregious assenergumenfanaticfantasticfigure of funflakeflightyfoolfoufruityhallucinated
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Noun(14 words)
maniacmanicmazedmentalmentally deficientmeshuggahmeshuggenahmilksopmindlessmoon struckmoon-struckmooncalfneuropathneuroticnon composnon compos mentisnoncomposnot all therenot rightnut
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oddof unsound mindoffparanoidperfect foolphreneticpottypreposterouspsychopsychoneuroticqueerraverraving lunaticreasonlessschmuckscrewballscrewysenselesssicksoftheadsopstark-madstark-staring madstrangestupid asstetchedtomfooltouchedunbalancedunhingedunsaneunsettledunsoundwackywanderingweirdowitlesswrongzany
Adjective(1 words)
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9 entriesadventurerdiseased personhistorical meaningirrationalitymental statepersonsick personsuffererventurer
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8 entriesdangerous lunaticlunatic asylumlunatic behaviorlunatic fringelunatic idealunatic pacelunatic schemeraving lunatic
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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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