Definition of Lunatic

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Lunatic

Affected by lunacy; insane; mad.

Of or pertaining to, or suitable for, an insane person; evincing lunacy; as, lunatic gibberish; a lunatic asylum.

A person affected by lunacy; an insane person, esp. one who has lucid intervals; a madman; a person of unsound mind.

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Lunatic Quotations

A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, 'darkness' on the walls of his cell.
C. S. Lewis

Every reform movement has a lunatic fringe.
Theodore Roosevelt

A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.
Friedrich Nietzsche

The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, are of imagination all compact.
William Shakespeare

The whole religious complexion of the modern world is due to the absence from Jerusalem of a lunatic asylum.
Thomas Paine

What can you do against the lunatic who is more intelligent than yourself, who gives your arguments a fair hearing and then simply persists in his lunacy?
George Orwell

My Father had a profound influence on me, he was a lunatic.
Spike Milligan

I guess the definition of a lunatic is a man surrounded by them.
Ezra Pound

Why does this person who is sitting behind a desk and never watches cartoons is arguing about what cartoons should be like. Its so creepy realizing that this person is a lunatic.
Jhonen Vasquez

The place where optimism most flourishes is the lunatic asylum.
Henry Ellis

Lunatic Translations

lunatic in Dutch is bezetene, gek, krankzinnige
lunatic in German is irrsinnig, Wahnsinnige
lunatic in Hungarian is elmebajos, elmebeteg
lunatic in Italian is pazza
lunatic in Norwegian is galning

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