lunatic
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A lunatic is a person considered insane or wildly irrational.
The word originally tied madness to the moon's phases—people believed lunar cycles triggered mental instability.
Today lunatic is informal and often hyperbolic: My boss is a lunatic, lunatic fringe.
It can describe reckless behavior: a lunatic driver weaving through traffic.
As an adjective: a lunatic scheme.
Slang for oddball
- battyMildly eccentric or daft
- barmyBritish term for crazy
- dottyMildly eccentric, informal
- nutterUK term for madman
loopy · loco · nuts · nutty · bonkers · crackers · mad · crazy
Suffering reality-detachment
- derangedMentally disturbed, irrational
- delusionalHolding false beliefs firmly
- schizophrenicHaving a reality-distorting disorder
- paranoidUnreasonably suspicious of others
demented · unhinged · manic · psychiatric · unstable · psychosis · delirium · hallucinations
Idiosyncratically unusual
- unconventionalDeparting from standard practice
- oddballEccentric individual
- kookyOddball in manner
- outlandishStrikingly weird or foreign-seeming
zany · whimsical · offbeat · bizarre · peculiar · strange · wild-eyed · crazed
Natural planetary satellite
- moonlitBathed in lunar glow
- werewolfShapeshifting wolf-person
- lycanthropyMythical wolf-becoming affliction
- tidesPeriodic sea-level changes
howling · nocturnal · madness · changeling · transformation · folklore · superstition · moonbeam
Wildly out of control
- rampagingViolently out of control
- berserkWildly, violently uncontrolled
- savageFierce and untamed
- uncontrolledLacking any regulation
unrestrained · chaotic · riotous · frenetic · hysterical · rabid · crazed · violent
wacko
Slang for oddball
nutter · loopy · loco · nuts · nutty · bonkers · crackers · mad · crazy · crackpot
psychotic
Suffering reality-detachment
- derangedMentally disturbed, irrational
- delusionalHolding false beliefs firmly
- schizophrenicHaving a reality-distorting disorder
paranoid · demented · unhinged · manic · psychiatric · unstable · psychosis · delirium · hallucinations · institutionalized
quirky
Idiosyncratically unusual
- unconventionalDeparting from standard practice
- oddballEccentric individual
- kookyOddball in manner
outlandish · zany · whimsical · offbeat · bizarre · peculiar · strange · wild-eyed · crazed · erratic
moon
Natural planetary satellite
- moonlitBathed in lunar glow
- werewolfShapeshifting wolf-person
- lycanthropyMythical wolf-becoming affliction
tides · howling · nocturnal · madness · changeling · transformation · folklore · superstition · moonbeam
frenzied
Wildly out of control
uncontrolled · unrestrained · chaotic · riotous · frenetic · hysterical · rabid · crazed · violent · raging
- Euphemismspass away, passed away, passed on, expecting, with child
- insanityinsane, crazy, mad, insanity, madness
- Old-Fashioned Medicineague, apoplexy, consumption, dropsy, grippe
- wild mensasquatch, yeti, wildling, wild child, feral child
- Mythological WordsAchilles heel, Adonis, aegis, ambrosia, Apollo
- Old-timey wordsicebox, gramophone, phonograph, horseless carriage, aeroplane
lunaticsane
Mentally healthy, clearheaded
rational · lucid · sound · of sound mind · balanced
lunaticsensible
Showing good judgment
reasonable · wise · prudent · judicious · level-headed
lunaticsensible
Showing good judgment
reasonable · prudent · judicious · measured · levelheaded
- lunatic asylumOutdated mental hospital
- lunatic fringeExtremist members of a group