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lunatical

UK/luːˈnatɪkl̩/

lunatical adjective: lunatic.

Adjective

lunatical (comparative more lunatical, superlative most lunatical)

  1. (rare) Lunatic.
    • Fine days succeeded, and moonlit nights, temperate nights with their irresistible poetry creating a silver lake in the borders of Thiepval's lunatical wood, a yellow harvest on the downs towards Mesnil the mortuary.1928, Edmund Blunden, Undertones of War, Penguin, published 2010, page 86

Forms of lunatical

comparativemore lunatical
superlativemost lunatical

Origin of lunatical

From lunatic + -al.

Questions about lunatical

What does lunatical mean?
Lunatical means lunatic.
What part of speech is lunatical?
Lunatical is an adjective.
How do you pronounce lunatical?
Lunatical is pronounced /luːˈnatɪkl̩/ (UK).

Words near lunatical in the dictionary

  1. lunatic asylum
  2. lunatic asylums
  3. lunatic fringe
  4. lunatic fringes
  5. lunatic soup
  6. lunatical
  7. lunatically
  8. lunatick
  9. lunaticks
  10. lunatics
  11. lunatics have taken over the asylum

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