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bedlamite

bedlamite noun: a lunatic.

Noun

bedlamite (plural bedlamites)

  1. (obsolete) A lunatic.
    • [S]he cursed him with the bitterest imprecations, and raved like a Bedlamite at the door, which she attempted to burst open.1751, [Tobias] Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), London: Harrison and Co., […], →OCLC
    • Upon coming to the edge of the outer surf, the man at the stern of our boat, steering with a long oar, began to stamp his feet and roar like a bedlamite […] .1808–10, William Hickey, Memoirs of a Georgian Rake, Folio Society 1995, p. 91

bedlamite meaning in Tamil

bedlamite in Tamil

பித்தன், உன்மத்தன், பித்துப்பிடித்த

Examples of bedlamite in a sentence

  • Cripps, bewildered at his friend's Bedlamite departure, stood staring helplessly after him with the ruined picture of Isaiah in his hand.1913, Norman Lindsay, A Curate in Bohemia, Sydney: N.S.W. Bookstall Co., published 1932, page 86:
  • Bradly stood listening to the old woman's squalling, resenting its note of febrile violence; its bedlamite insolence of old age.1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 195:

Forms of bedlamite

pluralbedlamites

Origin of bedlamite

From bedlam + -ite, in reference to the Hospital of Saint Mary of Bethlehem, a former London institution for the insane.

Words formed from bedlamite

Questions about bedlamite

What does bedlamite mean?
Bedlamite means a lunatic.
What is bedlamite in Tamil?
Bedlamite in Tamil is பித்தன், உன்மத்தன், பித்துப்பிடித்த. See Bedlamite meaning in Tamil.
How do you use bedlamite in a sentence?
Cripps, bewildered at his friend's Bedlamite departure, stood staring helplessly after him with the ruined picture of Isaiah in his hand.
What part of speech is bedlamite?
Bedlamite is a noun.
What is the plural of bedlamite?
The plural of bedlamite is bedlamites.

Words near bedlamite in the dictionary

  1. bedlamers
  2. bedlamic
  3. bedlamish
  4. bedlamism
  5. bedlamisms
  6. bedlamite
  7. bedlamites
  8. bedlamitic
  9. bedlamitical
  10. bedlamize
  11. bedlamized

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bedlamite (page history and authors); bedlamite (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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