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lunatics

lunatics is the plural 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

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Phrases with lunatics

Questions about lunatics

What is lunatics the plural of?
Lunatics is the plural of lunatic.

Words near lunatics in the dictionary

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

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