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lunatick

lunatick is the obsolete form of lunatic.

Meaning of lunatic

Noun

lunatic (plural lunatics)

  1. An insane person.
    • While there are other races (or individuals—heaven forgive me, I am no ethnologist) who think you a criminal or a lunatic unless you carefully plod along from step to step like a hippopotamus out of water.1902, Hilaire Belloc, The Path to Rome
    Synonyms:
    moonling, basket case, basket weaver, crack, crackpot, crazy, crazyhead, dingbat, eccentric, fruit and nut case

See all 4 meanings of lunatic

Forms of lunatick

Noun
plurallunaticks
Adjective
comparativemore lunatick
superlativemost lunatick

Questions about lunatick

What is lunatick the obsolete form of?
Lunatick is the obsolete form of lunatic.

Words near lunatick in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: lunatick (page history and authors); lunatic (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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