a. | 1. | Affected by lunacy; insane; mad; crazy; demented. |
2. | Of or pertaining to, or suitable for, an insane person; evincing lunacy; | |
n. | 1. | 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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2. | lunatic - a reckless impetuous irresponsible person | |
Adj. | 1. | lunatic - insane and believed to be affected by the phases of the moon Synonyms: moonstruck |
LUNATIC, persons. One who has had an understanding, but who, by disease, grief, or other accident, has lost the use of his reason. A lunatic is properly one who has had lucid intervals, sometimes enjoying his senses, and sometimes not. 4 Co. 123; 1 Bl. Com. 304; Bac. Abr. Idiots, &c., A; 1 Russ. on Crimes, 8; Shelf. on Lun. 4; Merlin, mot Demence; Fonb. Eq. Index, h.t.; 15 Vin. Ab. 131; 8 Com. Dig. 721; 1 Supp. to Ves. jr. 94, 130, 369, 404; 2 Supp. to Ves. jr. 51, 106, 151, 360; 1 Vern. 9, 137, 262; Louis. Code, tit. 9, c. 1; and articles Lucid Interval; Lunacy.
To see a lunatic in your dream, represents an acknowledged aspect of yourself. You may feel that your opinions and suggestions don't matter or are being ignored. You feel like an outsider. Alternatively, you may feel that you have lost a person, situation, or relationship which you frequently depended on.abnormal, absurd, aliene, ass, balmy, batty, bedlamite, bereft of reason, borderline case, born fool, brainsick, buffoon, clown, crackbrain, crackbrained, cracked, crackpot, crank, crazed, crazy, cuckoo, daft, deluded, dement, demented, demoniac, deprived of reason, deranged, ding-a-ling, disoriented, distraught, doodle, egregious ass, energumen, fanatic, fantastic, figure of fun, flake, flighty, fool, fou, hallucinated, harebrain, idiot, ignoramus, insane, irrational, jackass, kook, loco, loon, loony, mad, maddened, madman, maniac, manic, mazed, mental, mentally deficient, meshuggah, meshuggenah, milksop, moon-struck, mooncalf, neuropath, neurotic, non compos, non compos mentis, noncompos, not all there, not right, nut, odd, of unsound mind, off, paranoid, perfect fool, phrenetic, potty, preposterous, psycho, psychoneurotic, queer, raver, raving lunatic, reasonless, schmuck, screwball, senseless, sick, softhead, sop, stark-mad, stark-staring mad, strange, stupid ass, tetched, tomfool, touched, unbalanced, unhinged, unsane, unsettled, unsound, wacky, wandering, weirdo, witless, zany