Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary - lunatic
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Lunatic
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(lunatics) 1. If you describe someone as a lunatic, you think they behave in a dangerous, stupid, or annoying way. (INFORMAL) Her son thinks she’s an absolute raving lunatic. N-COUNT c darkgreen]disapproval 2. If you describe someone’s behaviour or ideas as lunatic, you think they are very foolish and possibly dangerous. ...the operation of the market taken to lunatic extremes. ...a country spurned until now by all except the more lunatic of journalists and adventurers. = mad, insane ADJ c darkgreen]disapproval 3. If you describe a place or situation as lunatic, you mean that it is confused and seems out of control. He pleads for sanity in a lunatic world. ADJ: ADJ n 4. People who were mentally ill used to be called lunatics. (OLD-FASHIONED) N-COUNT
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1.
adjective Etymology: Middle English lunatik, from Anglo-French or Late Latin; Anglo-French ~, from Late Latin ~us, from Latin luna; from the belief that lunacy fluctuated with the phases of the moon Date: 14th century 1. a. affected with lunacy ; insane b. designed for the care of insane persons ~ asylum 2. wildly foolish a ~ idea • ~ noun ...Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
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n. & adj. --n. 1 an insane person. 2 someone foolish or eccentric. --adj. mad, foolish. Phrases and idioms lunatic asylum hist. a mental home or hospital. lunatic fringe an extreme or eccentric minority group. Etymology: ME f. OF lunatique f. LL lunaticus f. L luna moon ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
3.
1. душевнобольной, ненормальный lunatic criminal —- юр. невменяемый преступник, лицо, совершившее преступление в состоянии невменяемости 2. безумец; человек, способный на все, часто экстремист 3. сумасшедший, безумный; помешанный 4. безумный; противоречащий здравому смыслу lunatic policy —- беззрассудная политика Id: lunatic fringe —- наиболее ревностные сторонники, фанатичные приверженцы; экстремисты, "бешеные" ...Новый большой англо-русский словарь
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1. adj. сумасшедший, безумный - lunatic fringe 2. noun сумасшедший, помешанный, душевнобольной LUNATIC asylum психиатрическая больница; сумасшедший дом LUNATIC fringe наиболее ревностные сторонники, фанатичные приверженцы ...Англо-русский словарь
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~ n 1 someone who behaves in a crazy or very stupid way (You lunatic - you nearly drove straight into me!) 2 old-fashioned someone who is mentally ill (a dangerous lunatic) 3 the lunatic fringe BrE the people in a political group or organization who have the most extreme opinions or ideas - lunatic adj (lunatic behaviour) ...Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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- c.1300, from O.Fr. lunatique "insane," from L. lunaticus "moon-struck," from luna "moon." Recurrent attacks of insanity believed brought on by lunar phases. Lunatic fringe (1913) was apparently coined by Theodore Roosevelt. ...Английский Этимологический словарь
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