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lunatically

lunatically adverb: in a lunatic or lunatical manner; crazily.

Adverb

lunatically (comparative more lunatically, superlative most lunatically)

  1. In a lunatic or lunatical manner; crazily.
    • Mr. Darwin saw a dressed-up wooden spoon become lunatically possessed, and dance in the hands of the women holding it.1870, Journal of the Ethnological Society of London, volume 2, page 377

Forms of lunatically

comparativemore lunatically
superlativemost lunatically

Origin of lunatically

From lunatic + -ally.

Questions about lunatically

What does lunatically mean?
Lunatically means in a lunatic or lunatical manner; crazily.
What part of speech is lunatically?
Lunatically is an adverb.

Words near lunatically in the dictionary

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

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