Off ones rocker, mental midget
(adjective) His brother tried several lunatic schemes that he thought would make him rich. (noun) Someone considered mad, or a lunatic, may be confined to a mental asylum.
The same word "lunatic" is used as a noun and its associated adjective. The noun actually means a lunatic person, someone who is insane or mentally unsound. The noun for the state, or something similarly mindless, is "lunacy."
A lunatic is a crazy person. Here are some sentences.People used to be locked up in lunatic asylums.He is acting like a lunatic."The lunatic is in the hall." (from Pink Floyd's "Brain Damage")
'Luna' is the 'Moon'. from Latin. From which we have the word 'lunatic', from when it was thought that people went mad during a full moon.
Lunatic. (No k)
Frantic Frenzied Discomposed Crazed Lunatic
I think you meant lunatic. Another word would be nutter, crazy person, looney. Along those lines. :)
insane, batty, cuckoo, daft, demented, derailed, deranged, fatuous, impractical, loony, lunatic
The word "lunatic" can function as a noun or an adjective, depending on how it is used in a sentence.
The word "lunatic" is derived from the French word "lunatique," which means moonstruck.
Lunaticus
Luna is the stem word for 'lunatic'. The word is a Latin noun that means 'moon'. The insane were believed to have been affected adversely by the moon.
The word "lunatic" comes from the latin word LUNAR which means moon. so lunatic means moon- crazy. but most people just mean crazy
you can call them a lunatic
The noun 'lunatic' is singular, common noun; an antiquated term for an insane person, derived from the belief that a person was driven mad by the changes in the moon. The word 'lunatic' is also an adjective, used to describe a noun (That was a lunatic thing to do.)
(adjective) His brother tried several lunatic schemes that he thought would make him rich. (noun) Someone considered mad, or a lunatic, may be confined to a mental asylum.
People once believed that madness was affected by the phases of the moon. A lunatic was thus someone afficted with "moon madness"